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| Dixie Selden "Portrait of Frank Duveneck" Oil on canvas (Photo: Courtesy of Cincinnati Art Museum) |
I recently did an art appraisal for a Santa Barbara collector of a painting by Dixie Selden. Dixie Selden was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and is best known for her impressionist portraits, still-lifes, and landscapes. She studied art at the Cincinnati Museum Art School under the esteemed artist Frank Duveneck.
Like many artists of her time, she did the grand tour, seeing art in Selden traveled to Spain, Italy and France and the rest of Europe. She also gained further artistic training with William Merritt Chase.
Selden also traveled in the U.S., painting the New England
coastline during the summers, often with Emma Mendenhall as a painting
companion. Selden was President of the Cincinnati Women's Art Club, and was
active in the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. She
exhibited with those groups as well as at the Pennsylvania Academy, the
Corcoran Gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Selden is considered a
listed artist with strong gallery listings and auction records, indicating her
work is widely traded on the market. Past auction records indicate auction
sales up to $62,100 although most artworks sell for less.
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