MALVINA HOFFMAN (1919-62) Set of 3 photos

Group of three vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photos. All are well used, rippled with edge creases, and all have their original stamps and attached paper blurbs on verso. Very good.

Malvina Cornell Hoffman (1885-1966) was an American sculptor and author, well known for her life-sized bronze sculptures of people. She also worked in plaster and marble. Hoffman created portrait busts of working-class people and significant individuals. One of the twentieth century’s most important sculptors, Malvina was called “America’s Rodin” yet is almost erased from history. She traveled the world, creating ethnic portraits of cultures and civilizations now lost. A protégé of Rodin, she helped found the museum in Paris dedicated to his art. She recorded in bronze & stone the leading personalities of the world as well as ballet dancers, bull fighters and the common man, and created monuments and architectural façades as well. (Wikipedia)

Photos depict her from three different decades. The earliest is from 1919, when she created a pedimental sculpture for Bush House in London. She is shown in 1928 at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City with her sculpture The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The third photo (with newspaper crop marks) dated Jan. 1962 shows the artist with her sculpture The Crusader.