Malvina Hoffman papers 1885-1984, undated

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Malvina Hoffman papers 1885-1984, undated

1885-1984

https://www.getty.edu/research/collections/collection/113Y6Q

The Malvina Hoffman papers provide comprehensive documentation of the sculptor's life and her career as a sculptor and writer. The archive includes correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials, as well as photographs and negatives, motion picture films, sketchbooks, and drawings. Photograph albums, scrapbooks, and diaries documenting Hoffman's work, travels, and personal life comprise a large portion of the archive. Drawings, sketchbooks, and photographic studies provide an intimate perspective of the artist's creative process, particularly the Bacchanale dance reliefs (1914), and monuments built for the Bush House (1924), the New York World's Fair (1939), and the Epinal Memorial Cemetery (1948-1960). These are supported by exhibition catalogs and clippings of reviews of Hoffman's work. Small groups of photographs, catalogs, and correspondence also reveal Hoffman's friendships with artists Auguste Rodin, Ivan Meštrović, Anna Pavlova, Jean Jacques Lemordant, and Alexandre Iacovleff. Especially significant are the materials Hoffman compiled - photograph albums, travel logs, and anthropological notes - in preparation for and as documentation of her largest commission, the 104 sculptures of the Races of Mankind created for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago (1929-1933).

150 Linear Feet (216 boxes, 9 flat file folders, 4 rolls)

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