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Medal: The Brotherhood of Man (obverse)
1955 · bronze
Diameter: 7.4 cm (2 15/16 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Malvina Hoffman
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Pavlova Memorial Exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1941
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Malvina Hoffman cast life-size bronze portraits of dancers, working-class figures, and notable individuals, capturing physical presence and psychological particularity in sculptural form. She worked across bronze, marble, and plaster, with particular distinction in her portraits of performers like Anna Pavlova. Her monumental series Hall of the Races of Mankind, installed at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, demonstrated her commitment to representing human diversity through meticulously observed sculptural form. Hoffman also wrote extensively on her artistic practice and anthropological interests.
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