ART - Malvina Hoffman: "Jakun" Malaysia - Field Museum Sculpture - Chicago, IL for Sale

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ART - Malvina Hoffman: "Jakun" Malaysia - Field Museum Sculpture - Chicago, IL:
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ART - Malvina Hoffman: "Jakun" Malaysia - Field Museum Sculpture - Chicago, IL: Malvina Hoffman (June 15, 1885 – July 10, 1966) was an American sculptor and author, well known for her life-size bronze sculptures of people. She also worked in plaster and marble. Hoffman created portrait busts of working-class people and significant individuals. She was particularly known for her sculptures of dancers, such as Anna Pavlova. Her sculptures of culturally diverse people, entitled "Hall of the Races of Mankind", was a popular permanent exhibition at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. It was featured at the Century of Progress International Exposition at the Chicago World's Fair of 1933. She has been called "America's Rodin". In 1930, Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History commissioned sculptor Malvina Hoffman to produce three-dimensional models of racial types for an anthropology display called the Races of Mankind. In this exceptional study, Marianne Kinkel measures the colossal impact of the ninety-one bronze and stone sculptures on perceptions of race in twentieth-century visual culture, tracing their exhibition from their 1933 debut and nearly four decades at the Field Museum to numerous reuses, re-packaging's, reproductions, and publications that reached across the world. This card features the Jakun people who "live in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula. They are of Malayan type with round heads dark, coppery skin, straight, smooth hair, thick, Jakun are mainly nomadic, thorough some are settled agriculture." This Photochromatic postcard is in good condition. No. A-113.