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...Living Man it plans to have 120 life-size bronze statues representing men & women of every contemporary human race. As far as possible they will be prime racial specimens, like Yale's collection of stuffed champion dogs (TIME, Sept. 14). Commissioned to do the work is able Sculptress Malvina Hoffman of Manha tan and Paris...
...served to inaugurate, the museum's vast sculpture court. Few displays in the U. S. have compared-with it in scope and quality- some 546 pieces were shown by such famed artisans as Robert Aitken, Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Stirling Calder, Allan Clark., Hunt Diederich, Charles Grafly, Malvina Hoffman, Gaston Lachaise, Aristide Maillol, Paul Manship. Edward McCartan, Robert Tait McKenzie, Charles Gary Rumsey, Mahonri Young, William Zorach. Those who inspected them were in full accord with Borough President Henry Hesterberg of Brooklyn, who in his opening address made the forthright comment: "This to my mind is a very great proposition...
...writer of what seems gibberish to most readers, Gertrude Stein is shown with a face rugged, calm, confident above a stolid mass which scarcely defines itself as a body. There are many other works by individual chisellers, Hunt Diederich, Daniel Chester French, the late Emil Fuchs, John Gregory, Malvina Hoffman, Leo Lentelli, Henry Augustus Lukeman, Edward McCartan, Eli Nadelman, the Piccirilli brothers, Lorado Taft, William Zorach. . . . If the modern U. S. lacks the glory of a sculptural tradition as deeply embedded and fertile as the Classic or Gothic, it does have a number of sincere experimentalists who keep...
Died. Mrs. Malvina Belle Ogden Armour, 85, widow of Philip Danforth Armour, founder of Armour & Co., meat packers, and mother of Jonathan Ogden Armour, present head of the firm; of old age infirmities, in Chicago...
...memorial is executed in Caen stone by Miss Malvina Hoffman of New York and is entitled "The Sacrifice". It was not sculptured with the intention of commemorating Harvard heroes or serving as a memorial to Robert Bacon, but it was purchased by Mrs. Bacon and given for its present purpose...