First black designer of a US coin

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On 24 Apr 2005 11:16:37 -0700, "stonej"
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Wasn't the Roosevelt Dime based on a Black sculptress' work?
Aram.

Don't know. "based on" I guess would
not be the same thing as "designed"
although it could be a gray area.

Some elderly black lady daubed and charcoaled a portrait of FDR when
she was young. In the goofy fairy-based aids-ridden victim society
1990s, this qualifies a black person to be the "designer" of the
Roosevelt dime, that white male eurocentric racist John Sinnock "stole"
it from her. What crap.

oly

On 27 Apr 2005 03:37:20 -0700, "oly" wrote:

Some elderly black lady daubed and charcoaled a portrait of FDR when
she was young. In the goofy fairy-based aids-ridden victim society
1990s, this qualifies a black person to be the "designer" of the
Roosevelt dime, that white male eurocentric racist John Sinnock "stole"
it from her. What crap.

oly

No, the claim is based on a bas-relief sculpture she was selected to
do, one for which Roosevelt posed and which was unveiled by Harry
Truman five months after Roosevelt's death.

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On 24 Apr 2005 11:16:37 -0700, "stonej"
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Wasn't the Roosevelt Dime based on a Black sculptress' work?
Aram.

The following is a synopsis of the claim and probable refutation as
published by Richard Bateson in his book "Richard's Roosevelt Review".

The artist Selma Burke claimed that John Sinnock's portrait of Roosevelt on
the dime copied a bas relief plaque unveiled in September of 1945. This
plaque was not a side profile and showed some features of the right side of
Roosevelt's face, as well as the features on the left. Sinnock had already
done his own studies of Roosevelt for the 1933 inaugural medal. One of the
many photos of Roosevelt has the exact profile in reverse as the profile on
the dime.

Bateson sums it up by stating that Sinnock probably used all the resources
and studies available to him, including Burke's.

Steve