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...long hall of Chicago's Field Museum there stand the completed results of the largest sculptural commission ever given a woman, possibly the largest sculptural commission ever completed by one sculptor anywhere: 101 bronze and stone statues and busts, almost all of them life size, depicting to the best of modern belief all the races of mankind. The collection, begun in 1930, was finally completed in February 1935. Last week the sculptor, capable, grey-haired Malvina Hoffman of New York and Paris, included the story of that commission in a thick volume of-rich reminiscences...
...Sculptor Hoffman is the daughter of the late great British Pianist Richard Hoffman who at the age of 18 was engaged by Phineas Taylor Barnum to tour the U. S. with Jenny Lind. Later Pianist Hoffman married one of his pupils, extremely Socialite Fidelia Lamson of Manhattan. A lifelong friend of Malvina Hoffman is Monologist Ruth Draper, with whom she used to play in the back yard of the Hoffman house on Manhattan's West 43rd St. It was while peering out of a front window from that same house that scrawny little Malvina first felt the surge...
...Sculptor Hoffman had to use all her tact to wean the Field Museum trustees from their original scheme for the Hall of Man. Their idea was that it consist of a series of painted plaster figures, equipped with real hair and glass eyes...
...Once while waiting for bewhiskered Auguste Rodin to keep an appointment at his studio, Sculptor Hoffman absentmindedly squeezed two sausage-shaped rolls of clay in her hand, was amazed to find that the pressure of her fingers had accidentally formed two upright figures, embracing. Said Rodin: "This is one of those accidents which one must catch and transform into science. You will keep this and model this group one-half life-size and cut it in marble - but before you do this you must study for five years." Five years later Malvina Hoffman finished her statue, called it Column...
Except for his portraits, Sculptor Lovet-Lorski never uses a model, works out his slick archaic figures from his imagination and his knowledge of anatomy. He still does most of his work in Paris, cannot abide New York. In San Francisco his artistic patron is capable Robert Gump of the huge Gump store in whose galleries most of Lovet-Lorski's sculpture is shown. Last week Patron Gump had just found a new hilltop studio for his protege at No. 1048 Broadway...