In a 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 ...

Helicline Fine Art announced the opening of its new exhibition, American Visions: Art of the 20th Century, a celebration of modern American art through January 26 at HeliclineFineArt.com. On October 4 ...

Many natural history museums, when they came into being in the latter part of the 19th century, had a clear mission: They were secular temples devoted to Western science and civilization. Their ...

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The banner head of Chicago's Field Museum exhibition - "Looking at Ourselves: Rethinking the Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman" - displays an image of Kamala Sircar, daughter of Sir Nilratan Sircar. A ...

With her Siamese cat, husband, violin and 28 pieces of metal baggage, capable grey-haired Malvina Hoffman sailed into New York Harbor last fortnight. Three-quarters of the largest sculpture commission ...

ANTH copy Purchased from the Jean Axelrod Acquisitions Endowment. In 'Race Experts' Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in the 'Races of Mankind' ...

Regarding Edward Rothstein’s “Art: A Mold in Which to Cast a New Orthodoxy” (Arts in Review, March 23): I shall always remember my first exposure to the sublime Malvina Hoffman sculptures. As a young ...