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1887 New York City - 1966 New York City. Known for: Ethnic portraits and figure sculpture, ballet dancers.
The following review by Jennifer Schuessler was published in The New York Times "Art & Design" section, January 20, 2016. ‘Races of Mankind’ Sculptures, Long Exiled, Return to Display at Chicago’s... Read full biography
The following review by Jennifer Schuessler was published in The New York Times "Art & Design" section, January 20, 2016. ‘Races of Mankind’ Sculptures, Long Exiled, Return to Display at Chicago’s Field Museum. CHICAGO — For decades, the bronzes created by the artist Malvina Hoffman for the Field... Read full biography
The following review by Jennifer Schuessler was published in The New York Times "Art & Design" section, January 20, 2016. ‘Races of Mankind’ Sculptures, Long Exiled, Return to Display at Chicago’s Field Museum. CHICAGO — For decades, the bronzes created by the artist Malvina Hoffman for the Field Museum’s “Races of Mankind” exhibit have had a ghostly afterlife at the institution. Hailed at their unveiling in 1933 as “the finest racial portraiture the world has yet seen” and viewed by millions... Read full biography
The following review by Jennifer Schuessler was published in The New York Times "Art & Design" section, January 20, 2016. ‘Races of Mankind’ Sculptures, Long Exiled, Return to Display at Chicago’s Field Museum. CHICAGO — For decades, the bronzes created by the artist Malvina Hoffman for the Field Museum’s “Races of Mankind” exhibit have had a ghostly afterlife at the institution. Hailed at their unveiling in 1933 as “the finest racial portraiture the world has yet seen” and viewed by millions of visitors, the sculptures were banished to storage in 1969, embarrassing relics of discredited ideas about human difference. Some were later scattered through the museum, like the Australian aboriginal man who stood guard for a time outside a... Read full biography
The following review by Jennifer Schuessler was published in The New York Times "Art & Design" section, January 20, 2016. ‘Races of Mankind’ Sculptures, Long Exiled, Return to Display at Chicago’s Field Museum. CHICAGO — For decades, the bronzes created by the artist Malvina Hoffman for the Field Museum’s “Races of Mankind” exhibit have had a ghostly afterlife at the institution. Hailed at their unveiling in 1933 as “the finest racial portraiture the world has yet seen” and viewed by millions of visitors, the sculptures were banished to storage in 1969, embarrassing relics of discredited ideas about human difference. Some were later scattered through the museum, like the Australian aboriginal man who stood guard for a time outside a McDonald’s on the ground floor, minus his original boomerang and spear. But to curators they remained strangely compelling, if tro... Read full biography
Malvina Cornell Hoffman - Artist Info
About Malvina Cornell Hoffman: Keywords
Keywords (64)
Art Method
- •Craftsperson, Handicrafts
- •Direct Carver, Hand Carving
- •Easel Painting
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Commemorative, Memorial, Monument
- •Dancers-Figure, Genre, Ballerinas
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Human Head Images, Portrait Heads, Faces
- •Mythology, Legends
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portrait Bust Sculpture
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Portraits: Notables, Society, Celebrity, Historical and/or Royalty
- •Sports Figures, Athletes, Genre, Events
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •Italy Before World War I
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked After 1900
- •Russia
Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •National Arts Club, New York
- •National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors
- •National Associaton of Women Painters & Sculptors
- •National Sculpture Society
- •Pen and Brush Club, New York
Art Teacher
- •Auguste Rodin
- •Gutzon Borglum
- •Herbert Adams
- •Janet Scudder
- •John White Alexander
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •New York School of Applied Design for Women, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Elizabeth N. Watrous Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
- •Helen Foster Barnett Prize, National Academy of Design
- •Julia A. Shaw Memorial Prize-National Academy of Design
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Sculpture Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City
- •Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors)
- •National Sculpture Society-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Grand Central Art Galleries-
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts