Finding aid for the Malvina Hoffman papers, 1885-1984, undated 850042
Julie Rosenberg; Beth Ann Guynn
Special Collections
1998
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Title: Malvina Hoffman papers
Creator:
Field, Stanley, 1875-1964
Creator:
Dance International (1937)
Creator:
Iacovleff, Alexandre, 1887-1938
Creator:
Lemordant, Jean Julien, 1878-1968
Creator:
Hoffman, Malvina, 1887-1966
Creator:
Meštrović, Ivan, 1883-1962
Creator:
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
Creator:
Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931
Creator:
Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917
Creator:
Grimson, S. B. (Samuel B.)
Identifier/Call Number: 850042
Physical Description:
150 Linear Feet
(216 boxes, 9 flat file folders, 4 rolls)
Date (inclusive): 1885-1984, undated
Abstract: Comprising letters, manuscripts, photographs, diaries, drawings, and films, the archive documents the life and career of the
American sculptor Malvina Hoffman.
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Language of Material:
English
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Scope and Content of Collection
The Malvina Hoffman papers provide comprehensive documentation of the sculptor's life and her career as a sculptor and writer.
The archive includes correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials, as well as photographs and negatives, motion picture
films, sketchbooks, and drawings. Photograph albums, scrapbooks, and diaries documenting Hoffman's work, travels, and personal
life comprise a large portion of the archive. Drawings, sketchbooks, and photographic studies provide an intimate perspective
of the artist's creative process, particularly the
Bacchanale dance reliefs (1914), and monuments built for the Bush House (1924), the New York World's Fair (1939), and the Epinal Memorial
Cemetery (1948-1960). These are supported by exhibition catalogs and clippings of reviews of Hoffman's work. Small groups
of photographs, catalogs, and correspondence also reveal Hoffman's friendships with artists Auguste Rodin, Ivan Meštrović,
Anna Pavlova, Jean Jacques Lemordant, and Alexandre Iacovleff. Especially significant are the materials Hoffman compiled -
photograph albums, travel logs, and anthropological notes - in preparation for and as documentation of her largest commission,
the 104 sculptures of the
Races of Mankind created for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago (1929-1933).
The archive is arranged in nine series according to material type.
Series I contains correspondence and personal papers that trace Hoffman's relationships with friends, family members, and
clients as well as the development of her commissions and publications. It is organized in four subseries that often contain
overlapping categories of material:
Series I.A. comprises general correspondence with friends, family, instructors, museums, and clients. Most of the correspondence
consists of letters received by Hoffman, although the files include occasional carbon copies or drafts of letters written
by Hoffman. Original and transcribed correspondence between Hoffman and Auguste Rodin fills one of the boxes. Three files
contain letters from Stanley Field. Also present is significant correspondence with Hoffman's contemporaries and close friends
Ivan Meštrović, Anna Pavlova, J. J. Lemordant, Alexandre Iacovleff, and Marianne Moore. Cashbooks, address books, and papers
regarding Hoffman's properties are also included here.
Series I.B. comprises correspondence, research materials, photographs, and personal documents for commissions related Hoffman's
larger commissions. Correspondence regarding major commission such as the Hall of Man project and the Joslin Hospital relief
panels, as well as lists of clients are included here, as are correspondence and inventories from the foundries and suppliers
that Hoffman worked with. Small drawings for the Joslin Hospital relief panels are included here. Also present are lists of
bronzes cast by various foundries.
Correspondence in Series I.C. addresses activities related to Hoffman's exhibitions, publications, and
lectures. Also included here are invoices related to her book
Sculpture Inside and Out, lists of Hoffman's exhibitions, and a folder containing Hoffman's obituaries.
Correspondence and related materials in Series I.D. pertains to Hoffman's volunteer relief efforts for World Wars I and II
including the Red Cross, Yugoslavian and Serbian war relief, and French artists war relief (Appui aux Artistes). Other letters
and reference materials relate to the Dance International organization and Hoffman's
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races) for the 1939 New York World's Fair. Also included here are miscellaneous correspondence; documents; clippings; press releases;
photographs, studies, and drawings; and inventories and indexes. Among these are indexes to Hoffman's scrapbooks in Series
VIII.
Series II contains Hoffman's date or appointment books, some of which contain diary entries, letters, and other materials.
Series III contains manuscripts and edited drafts of Hoffman's books,
Sculpture Inside and Out (1939),
Heads and Tales (1943), and
Yesterday Is Tomorrow (1965) and also includes publicity materials, letters of endorsement, and reviews. Manuscripts and published copies of several
magazine articles written by Hoffman are also present in this series. Transcripts of lectures given by Hoffman between 1913
and 1949 conclude the series. Correspondence regarding lectures is found in Series I.C.
Series IV comprises exhibition announcements and catalogs; periodical containing articles about Hoffman's work; and clippings
of reviews of Hoffman's work and exhibitions. Clippings, periodicals, photographs, and slides relating to other artists as
well as several anthropological articles are also present here.
Series V comprises photographs, negatives, and copper printing plates related to Hoffman's professional life as well as her
personal life. It is divided into three subseries that often contain overlapping groups of material:
The photograph albums in Series V.A. document Hoffman's field research and photographic studies of the individuals Hoffman
used as life models for the sculptures for
The Races of Mankind exhibit, commissioned by the Field Museum of Natural History in 1930. The albums cover the duration of the project, beginning
in 1930 with Hoffman's eight-month world tour and ending with the installation of the sculptures in the Hall of Man at the
Field Museum in 1933. Included are eight albums devoted to facial studies.
Series V.B. contains photograph albums and binders of photographs documenting Hoffman's professional and personal lives. Several
binders are filled with photographs of her portrait sculptures and major commissions such as the Bush House, the
The Races of Mankind, the Joslin Hospital panels, and the
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races), as well as images of her smaller projects. Also present are photographic studies for the
Bacchanale Frieze, a project of 26 relief panels that Hoffman worked on intermittently for ten years. Complementing these studies are personal
photographs of Hoffman with Pavlova, along with books and concert programs of Pavlova's performances. Other photographs document
Hoffman's travels, such as her trip to Serbia for the Yugoslavian war relief effort and her friendships. Finally, a small
photo archive of work by Auguste Rodin, Ivan Meštrović, and Jean Julien Lemordant is supported by news clippings, scrapbooks,
and exhibition catalogs. Each binder of photographs includes an index to the images contained within it.
Series V.C. comprises negatives, lantern slides, and copper printing plates and includes personal images (Hoffman, family,
and friends), images from Hoffman's world trip, and images of Hoffman's work. Acetate, nitrate, and glass negatives are present
in this subseries. The lantern slides are primarily related to Yugoslavian War Relief although small groups of lantern slides
depicting a ballet performance and views of gardens and garden sculptures are also present. Copper plates used for printing
illustrations of Hoffman's work conclude the series.
The films in Series VI depict events from Hoffman's trip around the world for the Field Museum commission, including documentation
of dancers and dancing; Hoffman and friends; and artists at work. Several of the shorter films repeat or are compilations
of footage from longer films. Most of the films were likely made by Hoffman and/or Grimson. Two films are by Thomas Craven
(
Rodin,
Composers in Clay) and others are by J. J. Cummingham (
Meštrović). A few films are copies of news reels by Pathé News (
An Unfinished Symphony in Stone;
Our World in Review: Art) and Movietone News, ([Cuban Voodoo Dance at Dance International]). Other films were made by the British Film Institute;
Doris Plaister; Mr. H. Griaule, Chief of the Dakar Djibouti Mission; and the Republican National Committee. Included in the
series are original 16mm films, either acetate positives or negatives, as well as the archival masters and copy masters made
by the repository for most of the original films. Additonally, an incomplete set of use copies on VHS videocassettes represent
the repository's first reformatting efforts for selected films.
Series VII contains a variety of materials that Hoffman compiled or collected over her lifetime. Hoffman's travel diaries
contain detailed accounts of the trips she made between 1902 and 1948 and chronicle both her domestic and international travels.
Included are three journals of anthropological notes used for the
Races of Mankind (Hall of Man) commission. A small collection of postcards that Hoffman gathered on her travels, some in albums, depicting
images of art and European cities is present in the series. Thirty-two scrapbooks that Hoffman kept from the time she was
a teenager until the end of her life contain clippings and photographs relating to her work and to art in general. Some of
the scrapbooks are devoted to specific projects or exhibitions, while others are more general in nature. A visitor's book
to Hoffman's studio and exhibitions spans from 1938 to 1961. One box of material holds memorabilia, papers, and assignments
from Hoffman's years at the Brearley School.
Series VIII is organized in three subseries: The sketchbooks in Series VIII.A span Hoffman's start with her formative years
and continue through her career; the large photographs of sculptures and commissions in Series VIII.B. depict some of Hoffman's
sculptures and complement the photographs in Series V; and the working drawings, sketches, and progress photographs in Series
VIII.C. document Hoffman's working methods.
Series IX comprises awards, honorary degrees, and certificates received by Hoffman between 1915 and 1957.
Arrangement note
The collection is organized in nine series: Series I: Correspondence and personal papers, 1903-1984, undated; Series II: Datebooks,
1902-1966, undated; Series III: Manuscripts, publications, and lectures, 1913-1966; Series IV: Periodicals, clippings, and
exhibition catalogs, 1915-1982, undated; Series V: Photographs, circa 1910-1964; Series VI: Audiovisual materials, circa 1924-1961,
undated; Series VII: Travel diaries, postcards, scrapbooks, and memorabilia, 1897-1966, undated; Series VIII: Sketchbooks,
drawings, and photographs, 1885-1965; and Series IX: Awards, honorary degrees, 1915-1957.
Biography
Malvina Cornell Hoffman, the American sculptor known for her life-size bronzes figures, portraits, and dance sculptures, was
born in New York City on June 15, 1885. She was the youngest child of Richard Hoffman, an English concert pianist and teacher,
and Fidelia Marshall Lamson Hoffman, an amateur pianist from a socially prominent New York family. From the beginning of her
life Hoffman was immersed in an artistic and intellectual milieu, surrounded not only by her parents' music, but by a large
circle of family and friends engaged in a wide range of artistic professions.
Hoffman was educated at home until she was nine or ten years old and then attended private girls' schools on Manhattan's Upper
East Side, first as a pupil at Chapin School and then at Brearley School, then one of the city's top finishing schools. While
still a teenager studying at Brearley Hoffman took evening classes in composition and watercolor at the Woman's School for
Applied Design followed by a "life class" at the Art Students League of New York. She then began night classes at the Veltin
School for Girls, studying sculpture with Herbert Adams and George Gray Bernard, and took Saturday painting classes with John
White Alexander. Hoffman also studied painting and drawing at home with Harper Pennington, who was a family friend, and sculpture
with Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore and another family friend. The heavy schedule she carried as young student
came to be indicative of Hoffman's career of intense artistic production. Throughout her life overwork led to periodic bouts
of exhaustion and illness.
The positive reception of Hoffman's 1909 portrait bust of her father realized under Borglum's tutelage, who had urged her
to translate the clay likeness into marble, encouraged Hoffman to direct her artistic talents towards sculpture. She worked
on the marble bust in Phimister Proctor's studio in MacDougal Alley, an area of converted horse stables, where she frequented
the studios of artists such as James Earle Fraser, Laura Gardin, Edward Deming, and Gertrude Whitney. Completed just two weeks
prior to her father's death in August 1909, the portrait was included in the National Academy of Design's 1910 exhibition.
Consequently, Hoffman's former teacher Alexander, who was then the president of the Academy, further encouraged her to focus
all her attention on sculpture. That same year, her bust of violinist and family friend, Samuel Grimson, was awarded an honorable
mention at the Paris Salon.
After her father's death Hoffman traveled to Europe with her mother in 1910, stopping in England and Italy before settling
in Paris with her sights set on studying with Auguste Rodin. Although the sculptor ignored her first attempts at contact despite
her letter of introduction from Borglum, Hoffman persisted and finally secured the sculptor's attention on her fifth try,
showing him the two marble heads she had brought with her from New York. The talent evident in these works persuaded Rodin
to accept Hoffman as a pupil.
While living in Paris, Hoffman worked as a studio assistant to the American sculptor Janet Scudder and also studied with the
Italian sculptor Emanuele de Rosales, who guided her while working on her first dance sculpture,
Russian Dancers (1911). The statuette was inspired by Anna Pavlova and Mikhail Mordkin's performance of
Autumn Bacchanale which Hoffman and her mother had seen in London. Translating the free movements of modern dance into sculpture soon became
one of the main themes of Hoffman's work.
Russian Dancers won first prize at the 1912 Paris salon.
In Paris Hoffman was introduced to the work of Matisse and other modernists. The chaos that she perceived when viewing their
works repelled her; for the entirety of her artistic career Hoffman instead worked in a variety of naturalistic styles, drawing
inspiration from the French classicist sculptors Jean-Antoine Houdon, François Rude, and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and Beaux-Arts
artists such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Frederick William MacMonnies, Herbert Ward, and Emmanuel Rosales. By aligning herself
with and gaining the acceptance of established male artists Hoffman found her path to being taken seriously as an artist.
In this she was guided by Janet Scudder who professed just such a strategy. Hoffman was a product of her time and place, and
rather than cleaving to the new ideas she encountered in Paris she advanced her career by using the system she was born into
and knew so well.
After sixteen months abroad a lack of funds forced Hoffman and her mother to return to New York in July 1911. There, at Rodin's
urging, she studied anatomy and dissection at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. She also met
and became good friends with Pavlova, with the dancer often posing for her while she sketched. Hoffman realized a series of
posters for the Ballet Russe that grew out of these sessions. She also began working on
Bacchanale (1924), a frieze of 26 plaster panels representing Pavlova in the dance in which she first made her reputation. It took Hoffman
a number of years to complete the frieze, as she worked on it whenever Pavlova and male dancers from the troupe were available
for sittings.
Hoffman returned to Paris in the summers to work with Rodin. She also visited and studied at bronze foundries, eventually
becoming a master founder. In 1912, she completed two more dance sculptures,
Bacchanale Russe, depicting Pavlova and Mordkin, and
L'Après-midi d'un faune which was inspired by a performance by Vaslav Nijinsky. While in London in 1914 for an exhibition of her work at Leicester
Galleries, she supervised the installation of Rodin's sculpture in an exhibition of French modern art at Grosvenor House.
Moved by the English soldiers who fought along with the French during World War I, Rodin later donated the entire group of
sixteen sculptures to England.
At the outbreak of World War I, Hoffman returned to New York and worked with the Red Cross. There she also formed the American
chapter of Appui aux Artistes, a war relief effort for the families of French artists who were fighting in the war. She established
a studio at 157 Sniffen Court in Murray Hill, Manhattan, and eventually building a private residence above it. Her landlady
and main benefactor in New York was the philanthropist and collector, Carol Averill Harrington. Hoffman exhibited
Bacchanale Russe;
Les Orientales, a bronze of Pavlova and Novikoff;
Russian Dancers; and her bust of Grimson at the 1915 San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, where she received an honorable
mention, and her dance sculptures and lithographs at Brooks Reed Gallery, Boston, in 1917.
After the war Hoffman returned to Paris where her over-life-size bronze,
Bacchanale Russe, was installed in the Luxembourg Gardens in 1919, becoming the first woman to have a sculpture placed there. The sculptural
group was stolen or destroyed, allegedly by Nazis, during World War II, and was never recovered. Hoffman also helped the art
historian and curator Léonce Bénédite, who was also the executor of Rodin's will charged with managing the sculptor's artistic
heritage, to find and reinstall the bronzes that she and Rodin had hidden in the basement of the Hôtel Biron at the outbreak
of the war. That August, at the request of Herbert Hoover, then director of the American Relief Administration, she and Marie-Louise
Emmet embarked on a seven-week tour of American relief efforts in Yugoslavia.
The following year Hoffman began work on
The Sacrifice, a memorial dedicated to Robert Bacon, the former American ambassador to France and to all the Harvard alumni who had perished
in the war. The sculpture of a dead Crusader laid out on a cross with his mother mourning at his head was commissioned by
Bacon's wife Martha for Harvard Memorial Chapel. Hoffman knew the Bacons from her early days in Paris when Martha Bacon had
commissioned her to produce copies of the Houdon portraits then displayed at the American Embassy. In 1923, the finished sculpture
was placed in the Chapel of St. Ansgar in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City where it remained until the
Harvard chapel was completed in 1932.
In 1921, Hoffman completed another bronze dance sculpture,
La Péri, depicting Pavlova and Hubert Stowitts performing Paul Duka's ballet of the same name in which Iskander (Alexander the Great)
encounters a Persian peri or winged spirit. In May of that year, she had her first one person show at Ferargil Galleries.
Hoffman's mother, with whom she had always lived, died in 1922. In 1924, Hoffman finally married her long-time friend Samuel
Grimson and they moved into the newly constructed residence at Sniffen Court. She also completed the
Bacchanale panels. And that year the American businessman, Irving Bush, commissioned Hoffman's first and most significant architectural
sculpture,
To the Friendship of the English Speaking People, for the Bush House, the trade center he was building in London. Commemorating Anglo-American friendship, the project comprises
two monumental figures, representing England and America, jointly holding a torch aloft. The pair is set in an arch surmounting
two columns forming the entryway to the building. Once the figures were installed Hoffman spent the next two months astride
their shoulders eighty feet above the street as she finished sculpting their faces and hair.
In 1925, Hoffman met Ivan Meštrović, the Croatian sculptor, who was in New York for the opening of his exhibition at the Brooklyn
Museum. She invited him to work at Sniffen Court until he found his own studio in the city. During this time both sculptors
made portraits of each other - Hoffman creating an over-life-size bronze of Meštrović now at the Brooklyn Museum, while Meštrović
made a terra cotta bust of Hoffman. A few years later Hoffman traveled to Zagreb to study equestrian sculpture with Meštrović,
and film him at work on his bronze equestrian sculptures of Native Americans,
The Bowman and
The Spearman, for Chicago's Grant Park.
Hoffman purchased the lot at 25 Villa Chauvelot (later 25 Villa Santos-Dumont) in Paris in 1927. There she built Villa Asti,
her Paris home and studio, which was completed in June 1928. The next year she shipped all the finished work she had stored
in Paris over the years to New York where she had her first major solo exhibition at the Grand Central Art Galleries. Comprising
105 sculptures and numerous drawings, the exhibition traveled to venues throughout the United States for the next five years.
At this point in her career Hoffman made her living primarily from portrait commissions and sales of copies of her smaller
dance figures along with the occasional larger commission. Late in 1929, family connections helped Hoffman to secure what
would become her largest commission - executing the sculptures for a new exhibition to be installed in the Hall of Man (Chauncey
Keep Memorial Hall of Physical Anthropology) in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Along with an exhibition devoted
to prehistoric humanity, it was one of two new exhibits approved in 1927 by David C. Davies, the director of the museum, that
together aimed to present the entire story of humankind. Faced with declining public interest in this seldom-visited hall,
museum officials and curators were especially keen to create an exhibition devoted to the living races that was not the dry
taxonomic display tupically found in museums of the time. Informed by the successful role that the window and floor displays
of their department store played in selling merchandise, members of the Field family felt that a lifelike, artistic exhibit
would be key to attracting visitors to the Hall of Man.
Late in 1929, Hoffman met Stanley Field, the president of the museum, at a dinner party and, as she was wont to do with new
acquaintances, approached him about commissioning work from her. Although Stanley Field appeared at the time to be disinterested,
he soon sent his cousin, Henry Field, who was then working under Berthold Laufer, the Field Museum's chief anthropology curator,
to visit Hoffman's studio and assess the suitability of the sculptor's work for the Hall of Man project. Henry Field and Marshall
Field III, a major benefactor of the museum who also made a significant contribution to the Hall of Man, were cousins. Hoffman
was related by marriage to Marshall Field III, through her second cousin, Evelyn I. Field. The Marshall Fields keenly supported
Hoffman for the project. A few months later, in February 1930, Hoffman was invited to the Field Museum to discuss her possible
involvement with the Hall of Man exhibition. At this point the museum was still working under the premise that the sculptures
for the exhibit would be created by several artists, and that they would be modeled in painted plaster with real hair and
glass eyes (Marshall Filed III, who championed figures in bronze had been persuaded by the curators that bronze could not
adequately represent a variety of skin colors). At the meeting, Hoffman was offered the opportunity to participate in the
project as one of the sculptors and she asked to think about it overnight. The next day, she argued persuasively that the
display would be much more cohesive if the figures were executed by a single sculptor. Ultimately Hoffman signed a contract
to be the single sculptor and to produce 20 life-size figures, 27 busts, and 100 heads in plaster, and a central sculptural
group,
The Unity of Mankind, in bronze.
Hoffman began working on the commission using existing plaster casts, measurements, and photographs provided by the museum.
As she worked, she continued to press for the figures to be cast in bronze, arguing that bronzes with patinas toned to convey
skin color would produce more lifelike sculptures than would plaster. By June of 1931, Stanley Field willingly acquisced to
the change in materials. In October 1931, Hoffman embarked on what was publicized as a "worldwide tour" (but which in reality
was confined mostly to Asia) photographing, drawing, and taking anthropological data of "authentic" models for her sculptures.
For seven months Hoffman, accompanied by her husband who served as the expedition photographer, Jean Macao, her assistant
and plaster caster, and Gretchen Green as expedition secretary, traveled through Hawaii, Japan, China, Bali, Java, Malaysia,
India, and Sri Lanka.
As a group, the final 104 bronze sculptures Hoffman produced for the Hall of Man are artistic depictions of racial types which
mediated between competing theories of racial and characteristic traits emerging in the early 1930s such as such pathognomy,
which studied the mobile features of the human body, as opposed to the long-held theories of physiognomy which were based
on measurable, stable features. Yet Hoffman also insisted that her sculptures were also portraits of individuals. Viewed on
a case-by-case basis, some of the sculptures, especially those that Hoffman worked on from life, are more successful as portraits
than others. Still, by weaving a narrative that emphasized the veracity of Hoffman's sculptures and that supported the notion
- and one which Hoffman was far from alone in holding - that by delineating an individual's characteristics a portrait can
signify a type, the Field Museum was well positioned to use them to illustrate a variety of ever-evolving racial discourses.
The Hall of Man opened on June 6, 1933, timed to coincide with the opening of Chicago's Century of Progress International
Exposition. It significantly increased Hoffman's visibility and led almost immediately to two exhibitions of small-scale statuettes
of the Hall of Man sculptures.
Les races humaines which opened in November 1933 at the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadero, was the first time than an American artist had been
invited to exhibit at that museum. This exhibition gave further credence to Hoffman's figures as being both anthropologically
sound and as individual works of art. The
Races of Man exhibition at the Grand Central Galleries followed in January 1934. Both exhibitions were well-received, with the former
becoming the first conduit for the sale of replicas of the statuettes which only increased in popularity with the latter exhibition.
Hoffman and Grimson divorced in 1936. Alone at Sniffen Court she completed
Heads and Tales (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936), an account of her travels for the Field Museum which became a bestseller. The
following year a large exhibition of her sculptures was held at the Virginia Museum of fine Arts in Richmond. Along with her
friend Louise Branch, then the proprietor of New York's English Bookshop, she also conceived of and founded Dance International,
and the two women organized its first program, a six-week exposition at Rockefeller Center which include dance film showings,
dance recitals, and a large exhibition on the art of dance that included Hoffman's own sculptures. Hoffman's work on dance
continued with her
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races) which was commissioned for the 1939 New York World's Fair and installed in Perylon Circle, a spiral garden outside Perylon
Hall. The fountain was destroyed after the fair ended. 1939 also saw the publication of Hoffman's second book,
Sculpture Inside and Out (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1939), an instructional guide to sculpture. The textbook became widely used and also contributed
to the growing number of students who came to her studio.
During World War II Hoffman again joined the Red Cross becoming the air-raid warden for her New York precinct. After the war
ended, she finally returned to Paris in May 1948 after a ten-year absence. While in France she visited the site of the Épinal
American Cemetery and Memorial in the Vosges Mountains where she had been commissioned to create relief panels for the exterior
of the monument. In 1950, she completed the designs which were then carved by Jean Juge. The monument and cemetery were dedicated
in July 1956. Her work on the Épinal project overlapped with that for the World War II Memorial Flagpole (1948) at the former
I.B.M. location in Endicott, New York, which honored I.B.M. employees who had served in the Armed Forces during World War
II. During the 1940s and 1950s, as she had throughout her career, Hoffman continued to sculpt portrait busts, figure, and
medals. Her last major commission, completed in 1956, was for the thirteen relief panels depicting the history and evolution
of medicine which she designed for the façade of Joslin Hospital (Joslin Diabetes Center). Hoffman spent her last years writing
her autobiography,
Yesterday Is Tomorrow (New York: Crown Publishers, 1965). She died at Sniffen Court on July 11, 1966.
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Processing History
An inventory of the collection was made in 1986 by Tim Netsch, and again in 1990 by Miriam Gaber. The 16mm films were reviewed
by Mary Fenton and Jennifer Young, who compiled a summary of the contents of some of the films. In 1992, Beth Ann Guynn processed
the correspondence, manuscripts, and portions of the glass plates. The scrapbooks, glass plates, and several large portfolios
were processed by Teresa Morales in 1996. Julie Rosenberg completed the processing and cataloging of the collection in June
1997. The finding aid was initially revised in 2016. In 2020, Series X. Motion picture films and negatives was further revised
to clarify that the film reels originally identified as nitrate were determined to be acetate. In 2023, Beth Ann Guynn edited
the finding aid and rewrote most of the notes; she also integrated the former Series X into Series VI which was renamed Audiovisual
materials in 2023.
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1985.
Preferred Citation
Malvina Hoffman papers, 1895-1984, undated, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 850042.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa850042
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Related Materials
Additional papers related to Hoffman's completion of the commission for
The Races of Mankind are held at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Existence and Location of Copies
Selected films from Series VI. Audio visual materials, circa 1924-1961, undated, were digitized by the repository in 2004.
Access is available only to on-site readers and Getty staff:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/850042s10av
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Journals (accounts)
Microfiche
Microfilms
Diaries
Chicago (Ill.) -- Exhibitions
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief
Sculpture, French -- 20th century
Sculpture, American -- 20th century
Ethnology
Anthropology
Bronze founding
Motion pictures (visual works) -- 20th century
Gelatin silver prints -- 20th century
Photographs, Original
Postcards
Scrapbooks
Sketchbooks
Women artists -- Archives
Artists -- Correspondence
Photograph albums -- 20th century
Videotapes
Art and Dance
World War, 1939-1945 -- Monuments -- United States
World War, 1939-1945 -- Monuments -- France
World War, 1914-1918 -- Monuments -- United States
Grimson, S. B. (Samuel B.)
Bush House (London, England)
Epinal American Cemetery (France)
Field Museum of Natural History
Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931 -- Portraits
Meštrović, Ivan, 1883-1962
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917
Iacovleff, Alexandre, 1887-1938
Lemordant, Jean Julien, 1878-1968
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
Correspondence and personal papers, Series I.
1903-1984, undated
Physical Description:
36 box(es)
Scope and Contents note
Series I. contains correspondence and personal papers that trace Hoffman's relationships with friends,
family members, and clients as well as the development of her commissions and publications. It is
organized in four subseries that often contain overlapping categories of material.
Series I.A. comprises general correspondence with friends, family, instructors, museums, and clients. Most of the correspondence
consists of letters received by Hoffman, although the files include occasional carbon copies or drafts of letters written
by Hoffman. Original and transcribed correspondence between Hoffman and Auguste Rodin fills one of the boxes. Three files
contain letters from Stanley Field. Also present is significant correspondence with Hoffman's contemporaries and close friends
Ivan Meštrović, Anna Pavlova, J. J. Lemordant, Alexandre Iacovleff, and Marianne Moore. Cashbooks, address books, and papers
regarding Hoffman's properties are also included here.
Series I.B. comprises correspondence, research materials, photographs, and personal documents for
commissions related Hoffman's larger commissions. Correspondence regarding major commission such
as the Hall of Man project and the Joslin Hospital relief panels, as well as lists of clients are included
here, as are correspondence and inventories from the foundries and suppliers with whom Hoffman worked. Small drawings for
the Joslin Hospital relief panels are included here. Also present are lists of bronzes
cast by various foundries.
Correspondence in Series I.C. addresses activities related to Hoffman's exhibitions, publications, and
lectures. Also included here are invoices related to her book
Sculpture Inside and Out, lists of Hoffman's exhibitions, and a folder containing Hoffman's obituaries.
Correspondence and related materials in Series I.D. pertains to Hoffman's volunteer relief efforts for World Wars I and II
including the Red Cross, Yugoslavian and Serbian war relief, and French artists war relief (Appui aux Artistes). Other letters
and reference materials relate to the Dance International organization and Hoffman's
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races) for the 1939 New York World's Fair. Also included here are miscellaneous correspondence; documents; clippings; press releases;
photographs, studies, and drawings; and inventories and indexes. Among these are indexes to Hoffman's scrapbooks in Series
VIII.
Arrangement
Arranged in four subseries: Series I.A.: Correspondence, 1903-1967, undated; Series I.B.: Correspondence, research materials,
photographs, and personal documents for commissions, 1927-1965; Series I.C.: Correspondence regarding exhibitions, publications,
and lectures, 1920-1982; and Series I.D.: Correspondence, war relief, Dance International, and
Dance International Fountain, 1908-1984, undated.
Correspondence, Series I.A.
1903-1967, undated
Physical Description:
8.5 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
The subseries comprises general correspondence with friends, family, instructors, museums, and clients. Most of the correspondence
consists of letters received by Hoffman, although the files include occasional carbon copies or drafts of letters written
by Hoffman. Original and transcribed correspondence between Hoffman and Auguste Rodin fills one of the boxes. Three files
contain letters from Stanley Field. Also present is significant correspondence with Hoffman's contemporaries and close friends
Ivan Meštrović, Anna Pavlova, J. J. Lemordant, Alexandre Iacovleff, and Marianne Moore. Cashbooks, address books, and papers
regarding Hoffman's properties are also included here.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
box 1, folder 1-2
A - general and friends,
1929-1964
Container Summary: circa 35 items
box 1, folder 3-4
B - general and friends,
1914-1964
Container Summary: circa 80 items
box 1, folder 5-6
C - general and friends,
1923-1964
Container Summary: circa 55 items
box 1, folder 7
Adams, Herbert,
1909
Container Summary: 1 item
Scope and Contents
One letter to Hoffman's mother regarding Hoffman.
box 1, folder 8
Adams, Adelaide and Herbert,
1924-1946
Container Summary: 7 items
box 1, folder 9
Adams, F. B., Jr.,
1958
Container Summary: 4 items
box 1, folder 10
Alexander, Arsene,
1929-1933
Container Summary: 12 items
box 1, folder 11
Avinoff, Andrey,
1929-1948
Container Summary: 5 letters, 5 photographs, 1 brochure
box 1, folder 12
Barbour, Dr. George,
1949-1965
Container Summary: 6 items
Scope and Contents
Dr. Barbour was a friend of Teilhard de Chardin.
box 1, folder 13
Batchelor, C. D.,
1966
Container Summary: 4 items, 1 photograph
box 1, folder 14
Benet, William Rose,
1950
Container Summary: 4 items
box 1, folder 15
Black, Davidson,
1931-1932
Container Summary: 6 items
box 1, folder 16
Bliss, Mildred,
1925-1940
Container Summary: 10 items
box 1, folder 17
Blodgett, George W.,
1933-1946
Container Summary: 11 items
Scope and Contents
Regarding a National Gallery of the American Indian. Blodgett was a sculptor who made portrait heads of Native Americans from
ew Mexico.
box 1, folder 18
Borglum, Gutzon,
1909-1948
Container Summary: 3 items
box 1, folder 19
Boulet, Demonvel, M.,
1912
Container Summary: 5 items
box 1, folder 20
Branch, Louise,
1937-1939
Container Summary: 4 items
box 1, folder 21
Branch, Melville,
1937
Container Summary: 4 items
box 1, folder 22
Brashear, John,
1918, 1920
Container Summary: 2 items
box 1, folder 23
Brooklyn Museum,
1929-1961
Container Summary: 7 items
box 1, folder 24
Brooks, Van Wyck,
1945-1962
Container Summary: 6 items
box 1, folder 25
Buck, Pearl S.,
1934-1965
Container Summary: 17 items
box 1, folder 26
Bunau, Varilla; Giselle and her father Colonel Phillipe,
circa 1915-1953
Container Summary: 13 items
box 1, folder 27
Carrel, Aleseis,
1926-1950
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 1, folder 28
Charlot, Simon,
1946-1951
Container Summary: 9 items
box 1, folder 29
Churchill, Winston,
1946
Container Summary: 2 items
box 1, folder 30
Coll, Francisco,
1954-1959
Container Summary: 5 items
box 1, folder 31
Connick, Charles,
1943-1946
Container Summary: 6 items
box 1, folder 32
Cornell, Katherine,
1960-1961
Container Summary: 5 items
box 1, folder 33
Cortissoz, Katherine,
1933-1953
Container Summary: 8 items
box 1, folder 34
Craven, Thomas,
1950
Container Summary: 1 item
box 1, folder 35
Cushing, Dr. Harry,
1928-1934
Container Summary: 10 items
box 1, folder 36
Cutten, Leverett Howell,
1943-1959
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 2, folder 1
D - general and friends,
1919-1966
Container Summary: circa 40 items
box 2, folder 2
Dallas, Bishop John,
1941-1958
Container Summary: circa 15 items
box 2, folder 3
Dandré, Victor,
1931-1936
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 2, folder 4
Davis, J. Lionberger,
1929-1965
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 2, folder 5
Delano, Frederick A.,
1937-1941
Container Summary: 5 items
box 2, folder 6
Delano, William A.,
1936-1952
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 2, folder 7
Dickinson, Dr. Robert C.,
1937-1951
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 2, folder 7A
Draper, Helen,
undated
Container Summary: 11 postcards
Scope and Contents note
Postcards addressed to Hoffman's sister, Helen Draper, most from Hoffman.
box 2, folder 8
E - general and friends,
1931-1957
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 2, folder 9
Eames, Emma,
1903-1951
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 2, folder 10
Eaton, Allen H.,
1933-1959
Container Summary: 9 items
box 2, folder 11
Emmet, Marie-Louise "Sauvage,"
undated
Container Summary: 4 items
Scope and Contents
"Sauvage" was her nickname.
box 3, folder 1
F - general and friends,
1928-1964
Container Summary: circa 40 items
box 3, folder 2
Field, Henry,
1930-1941
Container Summary: circa 12 items
Field Museum,
1930-1934, 1944
World tour,
1930-1934, 1944
box 3, folder 3
1930-1931
Container Summary: circa 60 items
box 3, folder 4
1932-1934, 1944
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 3, folder 5
Letters of introduction not used,
1931
Container Summary: circa 15 items
Field, Stanley,
1930-1932
box 3, folder 6
1930-1931
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 3, folder 7-8
1931-1932
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 3, folder 9
Ford, John,
1936
Container Summary: 4 items
box 3, folder 10
French, Daniel Chester,
1916-1966
Container Summary: 17 items
box 3, folder 11
Frick, Helen,
1921-1945
Container Summary: 18 items
box 3, folder 12
G - general and friends,
1909-1964
Container Summary: circa 25 items, photographs
box 3, folder 13
Green, Gretchen,
circa 1943
Container Summary: 10 items
box 3, folder 14
Greene, Jerome D.,
1938-1941
Container Summary: 12 items
box 3, folder 15
Greenley, Howard,
circa 1933
Container Summary: 3 items
box 3, folder 16
Gibbs, William Francis,
1952-1962
Container Summary: 7 items
box 3, folder 17
Griaule, Marcel,
1933-1939
Container Summary: 17 items, photographs
Scope and Contents
The Mission Dakar-Djibouti, led by Marcel Griaule from 1931 to 1933, was organized by the Institut d'ethnologie of the Université
de Paris and the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and financed by the French government and private donors, was a French
ethnographic expedition carried out in Africa with the objective of collecting a large number of ethnographic objects in order
to renew the collection of the museum.
box 3, folder 18-19
Granados, Victor,
1940-1944
Container Summary: circa 60 items
box 3, folder 20
Guy, Loë M.,
1949-1961
Container Summary: 25 items
box 4, folder 1
H - general and friends,
1920-1964
Container Summary: circa 35 items
box 4, folder 2
Harriman, Mrs. E. H. (Mary),
1921-1932
Container Summary: circa 40 items
Scope and Contents
Owner of New York Studio at 157 E. 35th Street.
box 4, folder 3
Haseltine, Herbert,
1907-1951
Container Summary: 11 items
Scope and Contents
Haseltine was Hoffman's cousin and a sculptor.
box 4, folder 4
Healey, Frances,
1945
Container Summary: 6 items
Scope and Contents note
Three color photographs moved to Box 207, folder 2.
box 4, folder 5
Henderson, David and Lady,
1919-1931
Container Summary: circa 8 items
Hocking, William Ernest,
1950-1965
box 4, folder 6
1950-1962
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 4, folder 7
1962-1965
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 4, folder 8
Holt, Charlotte,
1940-1945
Container Summary: 10 items
Iacovleff, Alexandre,
1933-1954
box 4, folder 9
1934-1938
Container Summary: 16 items
box 4, folder 10
1939-1954
Container Summary: circa 34 items
Scope and Contents note
Includes exhibition photographs and brochures.
box 4, folder 11
1933-1938
Container Summary: 28 items
box 4, folder 12
Izcue, Elena and Viltoria,
1935-1946
Container Summary: 16 items
box 4, folder 13
Ingalls, Albert G.,
1951
Container Summary: 6 items
box 4, folder 14
J - general and friends,
1934-1960
Container Summary: 11 items
box 4, folder 15
Jaccaci, August F.,
1916-1927
Container Summary: 9 items
box 4, folder 16
Jaqua, Ernest,
1938-1946
Container Summary: 17 items
Scope and Contents
Jaqua was president of Scripps College.
box 5, folder 1
K - general and friends,
1931-1960
Container Summary: 19 items
box 5, folder 2
Keats, John (letters about),
1936-1953
Container Summary: 6 items
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding a bust for the Hall of Fame, New York City.
box 5, folder 3
Keith, Sir Arthur,
1931-1955
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 5, folder 4
Keller, Deane,
1948-1966
Container Summary: 7 items
box 5, folder 5
Keller, Helen,
1938
Container Summary: 1 item
box 5, folder 6
Kellogg, Donald,
1944
Container Summary: 3 items
box 5, folder 6a
Kent, H. W.,
1931, 1933-1934
Container Summary: 6 items
box 5, folder 7
Kent, Rockwell,
1940
Container Summary: 1 item
box 5, folder 8
King, Mrs. Charles G. (Ginevra),
1933-1938
Container Summary: 10 items
box 5, folder 9
Kinsey, Alfred C.,
1943-1956
Container Summary: 6 items
box 5, folder 10
Koury, Leon,
1938-1947
Container Summary: 5 items
box 5, folder 11-12
L - general and friends,
1925-1961
box 5, folder 13
La Farge, John,
1909
Container Summary: 1 item
box 5, folder 14
Lavery, Sir John,
1926-1935
Container Summary: 7 items
box 5, folder 15
Lawrie, Lee,
1948-1960
Container Summary: 4 items
Lemordant, J. J.,
1910-1937
box 5, folder 16-17
1910-1937
Container Summary: circa 70 items
box 5, folder 18
1919-1921
Container Summary: circa 50 items
Scope and Contents note
Regarding a tour in America.
box 5, folder 19
Lind, Jenny,
1920-1952
Container Summary: 5 items
Scope and Contents note
Regarding Centennial Celebration.
box 5, folder 20
Luhan, Mabel Dodge,
1920-1934
Container Summary: 6 items
box 5, folder 21
Lipshitz, Jacob,
undated
Container Summary: 2 items
Meštrović, Ivan,
1925-1951
box 6, folder 1
1925-1947
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 6, folder 2
1925-1947
Container Summary: circa 20 items, 2 photographs
box 6, folder 3
1924-1928
Container Summary: 23 items
box 6, folder 4
1945-1946
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 6, folder 5
1947-1951
Container Summary: circa 40 items
Meštrović, Ivan and Olga,
1917-1964
box 6, folder 6-7
1917-1960
Container Summary: circa 35 items
box 6, folder 8
1922-1964
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 7, folder 1
M - general and friends,
1919-1960
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 7, folder 2
McBride, Margaret,
1942-1943
Container Summary: 10 items
box 7, folder 3
McCartan, Edward,
1920
Container Summary: 1 item
box 7, folder 4
McLane, James Catimer,
circa 1917
Container Summary: 7 items
box 7, folder 5
Manship, Paul,
1957-1966
Container Summary: 4 items
box 7, folder 6
Meire, Hildreth,
1938-1961
Container Summary: 11 items
box 7, folder 7
Ming, Chen Chau,
1966
Container Summary: 5 items
box 7, folder 8
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
1941-1960
Container Summary: circa 15 items
box 7, folder 9
Monfried, Henri de,
1940-1966
Container Summary: 11 watercolors
box 7, folder 10
Monjo, Enrique,
1956-1964
Container Summary: 12 items
Moore, Marianne,
1950-1966, undated
box 7, folder 11
1950
Container Summary: 4 items
box 7, folder 12
1951
Container Summary: 10 items
box 7, folder 13
1952
Container Summary: 22 items
box 7, folder 14
1953
Container Summary: 19 items
box 7, folder 15
1954
Container Summary: circa 12 items
box 7, folder 16
1955
Container Summary: 12 items
box 7, folder 17
1956
Container Summary: 8 items
box 7, folder 18
1957
Container Summary: 5 items
box 7, folder 19
1958
Container Summary: 2 items
box 7, folder 20
1959
Container Summary: 14 items, 1 color photo
box 7, folder 21
1960
Container Summary: 20 items
box 7, folder 22
1961
Container Summary: 9 items
box 7, folder 23
1962
Container Summary: 2 items
box 7, folder 24
1964-1966
Container Summary: 4 items
box 7, folder 25
undated
Container Summary: 24 items
box 7, folder 26
Morgan, Anne,
1934-1947
Container Summary: 20 items
box 7, folder 27
Mudd, Stuart,
1940-1951
Container Summary: 4 items
box 7, folder 28-29
N - general and friends,
1917-1967
Container Summary: circa 80 items
box 7, folder 30
National Arts Club,
1962-1965
Container Summary: 13 items
box 7, folder 31
National Sculpture Society,
1936-1955
Container Summary: circa 40 items
box 7, folder 32
National Sculpture Society Annual Dinner,
1962-1964 February 11
Container Summary: 14 items
box 7, folder 33
Nielsen, Kate,
1933-1949
Scope and Contents
Nielsen was a Danish painter and Hoffman's friend.
box 8, folder 1
O - general and friends,
1924-1939
Container Summary: 9 items
box 8, folder 2
Ochs, Adolph,
1922-1931
Container Summary: 4 items
box 8, folder 3
O'Keeffe, Georgia,
1939-1944
Container Summary: 4 items
Scope and Contents note
With a note from Stieglitz.
box 8, folder 4
Oukrainsky, Serge,
1915-1942
Container Summary: 11 items
box 8, folder 5
P - general and friends,
1919-1965
Container Summary: circa 50 items
Paderewski, Ignace,
1922-1956
box 8, folder 6
Paderewski, Ignace,
1922-1930
Container Summary: 4 items
box 8, folder 7
Correspondence regarding Paderewski,
1930-1946
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 8, folder 8
Correspondence regarding Paderewski - "The Statesman,"
1924 -1955
Container Summary: 12 items
box 8, folder 9
Letter to Paderewski from Hoffman,
1936
Container Summary: 1 item
box 8, folder 10
Paget-Fredericks, J.,
circa 1956
Container Summary: 4 items
box 8, folder 11
Patton, General George,
1929
Container Summary: 2 items
box 8, folder 12
1919-1924
Container Summary: 12 items
box 8, folder 13
1915-1916
Container Summary: 6 items
box 8, folder 14
Pickford, Mary,
1933, 1939
Container Summary: 2 items
box 8, folder 15
Presbrey-Leland (War Memorials),
1940-1960
Container Summary: circa 30 items
Pribićević, Col. Milan,
1918-1937
box 8, folder 16
1918-1937
Container Summary: circa 40 items, photographs
box 8, folder 17
1932-1936
Container Summary: circa 30 items, photographs
box 8, folder 18
R - general and friends,
1917-1966
Container Summary: 39 items
box 8, folder 19
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan,
1938-1940
Container Summary: 6 items
box 8, folder 20
Reader's Digest,
1944-1952
Container Summary: 11 items
Dowager Marchioness of Reading,
1934-1964
box 8, folder 21
1934-1943
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 8, folder 22
1944-1964
Container Summary: 21 items
box 8, folder 23
Richard, Guilio F.,
1937-1949
Container Summary: 33 items, photographs
box 8, folder 24
Roberts, Frank,
1941, 1952
Container Summary: 10 items
box 8, folder 25
Rosales, E.O. de,
1916-1951
Container Summary: circa 50 items
Rodin, Auguste,
1910-1957, undated
Scope and Contents note
Transcriptions of correspondence between Rodin and Malvina Hoffman, original letters from Rodin to Hoffman, Hoffman's letters
to Rodin, and assorted papers about Rodin. A few of Rodin's letters contain sketches.
box 9, folder 1
Typewritten transcriptions of letters from Rodin to Hoffman, and from Hoffman to Rodin,
1910-1916
Container Summary: 16 pages
box 9, folder 2-22
Rodin, Auguste to Hoffman,
1910-1916
Container Summary: circa 40 items, lock of Rodin's hair, 1 piece of fabric, 1 piece of cloth (tricolor)
box 9, folder 23-28
Hoffman to Auguste Rodin,
1910-1916
Container Summary: 6 items
box 9, folder 29
Fabric (tricolor),
undated
Container Summary: 1 item
box 9, folder 30
Rodin's last days and funeral - to Hoffman by Leonce Bémédele,
1917-1922
Container Summary: 13 items
box 9, folder 31
Miscellaneous items concerning Rodin,
1916-1957
Container Summary: circa 40 items
Scope and Contents note
Printed matter, letters.
box 10, folder 1-4
S - general and friends,
1910-1966
Container Summary: circa 120 items
box 10, folder 5
Schuré, Edouard,
1922-1931
Container Summary: 17 items
box 10, folder 6-7
Scribner, Charles,
1935-1954
Container Summary: circa 60 items
box 10, folder 8
Shankar, Uday,
1937-1938
Container Summary: 10 items
box 10, folder 9
Shuster, Will,
1937
Container Summary: 7 items, photographs
box 10, folder 10
Spanish Institute,
1957-1966
Container Summary: 9 items
box 10, folder 11
Stowe, Lyman,
undated
Container Summary: 2 items
box 10, folder 12
T - general and friends,
1921-1964
Container Summary: 27 items
box 10, folder 13
Tagore, Abinandranath,
1930
Container Summary: 2 items
box 10, folder 14
Taylor, Myron C.,
1953-1955
Container Summary: 10 items
box 10, folder 15
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre,
1939-1964
Container Summary: circa 35 items
box 10, folder 16
Temperly, Harold,
1919-1939
Container Summary: 21 items
box 10, folder 17
U - general and friends,
1936-1944
Container Summary: 17 items
box 10, folder 18
V - general and friends,
1931-1950
Container Summary: 13 items, photographs
box 10, folder 19
Verne, Henri,
1917-1962
Container Summary: 11 items
box 10, folder 20
Vogelaar, Dr.,
1943
Container Summary: 4 items
box 11, folder 1-2
W - general and friends,
1919-1962
Container Summary: circa 60 items
box 11, folder 3
Warburg (Felix, Paul M., Frieda, and Nina),
1920-1945
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 11, folder 4
Weddell, Alex and Virginia,
1915-1945
Container Summary: 22 items
Scope and Contents note
Regarding Alexander Weddell memorial tablet.
box 11, folder 5
Witt, Sir Robert,
1922-1933
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 11, folder 6
Y - general and friends,
1930-1941
Container Summary: 10 items
box 11, folder 7
Yourcenar, Marguerite,
1953-1962
Container Summary: 9 items
box 11, folder 8
Z - general and friends,
1931-1936
Container Summary: 5 items
box 11, folder 9
Zarraga, Angel,
1929-1937
Container Summary: 11 items
box 11, folder 10
Zorach, William,
1936-1945
Container Summary: 4 items
box 11, folder 11-12
Unidentified,
1913-1965
Container Summary: circa 53 items
Correspondence: fan letters,
1933-1966
Lectures and books,
1937-1966
box 12, folder 1
1937-1941
Container Summary: circa 40 items
box 12, folder 2
1933-1966
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 12, folder 3
Fan letters:
Sculpture Inside and Out,
1934-1959
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 12, folder 4-5
Fan letters:
Yesterday Is Tomorrow,
1965-1966
Container Summary: circa 35 items
Heads and Tales correspondence,
1933-1965
box 12, folder 6-10
1936-1948
Container Summary: circa 150 items
box 13, folder 1
1933-1965
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 13, folder 2
1936-1940
Container Summary: circa 50 items
Scope and Contents
One of two files.
box 13, folder 3
1936-1940
Container Summary: circa 40 items
Scope and Contents
Two of two files.
box 13, folder 4
1948, 1956
Container Summary: 5 items, news clipping
box 15, folder 1
Notes from p.102 of cash book,
1934-1943
Container Summary: 1 item
box 15, folder 2-3
Notes from cash book,
1942-1960
Container Summary: circa 40 items
box 16, folder 1
Address book alphabetized by country
box 16, folder 2
Address book alphabetized by Hall of Man project countries
box 16, folder 3
Directory outside New York (alphabetized by state)
box 16, folder 4
European addresses (alphabetized by name)
box 16, folder 5
New York phone directory (alphabetized by name)
box 16, folder 6
Loose items originally in Address book, folder 1
Correspondence and personal papers regarding properties in Paris and New York,
1915-1965
box 17, folder 1
Goldberger, Nathan (Hoffman's attorney),
1932-1953
Container Summary: 8 items
box 17, folder 2
Receipts, etc., for studio at 157 E. 35th Street, New York,
1937-1958
Container Summary: circa 35 items
box 17, folder 3
Receipts, renovations etc., for Villa Asti, Paris,
1927-1965
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 17, folder 4
Controversy over Sniffen Court,
1915-1942
Container Summary: 22 items
box 17, folder 5
Receipts, deeds, etc. for 157 E. 35th Street, New York,
1922-1939
Container Summary: circa 30 items
Correspondence, research materials, photographs, and personal documents for commissions, Series I.B.
1927-1965
Physical Description:
4 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
The suberies comprises correspondence, research materials, photographs, and personal documents for
commissions related Hoffman's larger commissions. Correspondence regarding major commission such
as the
Hall of Man project and the Joslin Hospital relief panels, as well as lists of clients are included here, as are correspondence and inventories
from the foundries and suppliers with whom Hoffman worked.Small drawings for the Joslin Hospital relief panels are included
here. Also present are lists of bronzes
cast by various foundries.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
box 18, folder 1
Field, Stanley,
1932-1935
Container Summary: circa 35 items
box 18, folder 2
Simms, S. C.,
1930-1935
Container Summary: circa 50 items
Scope and Contents
Stephen C. Simms was the director of the Field Museum from 1928 to 1937.
box 18, folder 3-4
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago,
1932-1964
Container Summary: circa 100 items
Hall of Man correspondence,
1930-1964,
box 18, folder 5
1930-1933
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 18, folder 6
1933-1964
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 18, folder 7
Letters to ambassadors, anthropologists, and museums,
1930-1931
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 18, folder 8
Invoices, receipts, and miscellaneous list of references,
1930-1931
Container Summary: circa 15 items
box 18, folder 9
Guérin Maritime Co,
1931-1932
Container Summary: circa 30 items
Scope and Contents
Packing slips and correspondence.
Alexis Rudier Foundry,
1927-1934
box 18, folder 10
1931-1933
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 18, folder 11
List of bronzes produced,
1927-1934
Container Summary: 10 items
box 18, folder 12
Lists of photographs taken or purchased by Marouteau and Co. and S. Grimson,
1931
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 19, folder 1-2
Hall of Man documents, interviews: and anthropometric data,
circa 1927-1933
Container Summary: circa 100 pages
Joslin Hospital Relief Panels (Boston),
1955-1960
box 20, folder 1
Joslin, Elliot P., president,
1956-1960
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 20, folder 2
Shepley, Henry R., architect,
1956-1958
Container Summary: circa 35 items
box 20, folder 3
Miscellaneous correspondence,
1955-1965
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 20, folder 4-5
Reference materials, correspondence, booklets, and magazine clippings,
1952-1965, undated
Container Summary: circa 80 items
box 20, folder 6
Reference photographs and drawings,
undated
Container Summary: circa 100 items
Scope and Contents note
One negative moved to Box 207, f.4.
box 20, folder 7
Reference photographs for Pasteur, Banting, and Best,
undated
Container Summary: circa 100 photographs, 1 booklet
Scope and Contents note
One negative moved to Box 207, f.5.
box 20, folder 8
Working drawings,
undated
Container Summary: circa 30 items, news clippings
Scope and Contents note
Relate to photographs in this box, f.9. Large drawings moved to Box 189*, f.2.
box 20, folder 9
Reference photographs,
undated
Container Summary: circa 60 photographs, news clippings
box 20, folder 10
Working drawings,
undated
Container Summary: circa 20 items
Scope and Contents note
Relate to photographs in f.11, this box. Large drawings moved to Box 189*, f.2.
box 20, folder 11
Reference photographs, booklet, various clippings and notes,
undated
Container Summary: circa 30 items and photographs
Correspondence, general commissions, Map of Mankind, Epinal Memorial,
1917-1967
box 21, folder 1
Bacon, Mrs. Robert Low,
The Sacrifice, Memorial to American Ambassador Robert Bacon at Harvard Chapel,
1917-1951
Container Summary: circa 30 items
Scope and Contents
I.e. Virginia Murray Bacon
box 21, folder 2
The Bush House, Commemoration to Anglo-American Friendship,
1922-1947
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 21, folder 3
The National Society of Colonial Dames (Eleanor Van Rensellear Fairfax Medal),
1924
Container Summary: 10 items
box 21, folder 4
Epstein, Jacob (Epstein Mausoleum),
1929-1931
Container Summary: 15 items
box 21, folder 5
Peabody, Dr. Endicott (Groton School),
1933-1951
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 21, folder 6
Buffalo Museum of Science,
1937
Container Summary: circa 15 items
box 21, folder 7
Commissions,
1936-1939
Container Summary: 16 items
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous correspondence.
box 21, folder 8
Liberty,
1937-1966
Container Summary: circa 35 items
box 21, folder 9
Freer Gallery of Art,
1937-1941
Container Summary: 12 items
box 21, folder 10
Spreckels, Mrs. Adolph,
1937-1958
Container Summary: circa 35 item, news clippings
Scope and Contents
I.e. Alma de Bretteville Spreckel.
box 21, folder 11
Dance International Fountain
Dances of the Races, New York World's Fair, 1939,
1937-1941
Container Summary: circa 50 items
Scope and Contents note
Publicity, printed materials, photographs and correspondence.
box 21, folder 12-14
Photographs: "Three Weeks Old Baby" (Dr. Robert Dickinson),
1939-1942
Container Summary: circa 50 items, 6 drawings, circa 100 photographs, news clippings
box 21, folder 15
Wilkie, Wendell,
1940-1947
Container Summary: circa 40 items
Map of Mankind (Field Museum),
1942-1954
box 22, folder 1
1942-1954
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 22, folder 2
1943-1944
Container Summary: 16 items
box 22, folder 3
Grace Cathedral,
1942-1944
Container Summary: circa 40 items, news clippings, 1 watercolor
Scope and Contents note
Reference materials, photographs, and drawings. See flat file folder 7** for blueprint of cathedral moved from this folder.
box 22, folder 4
Cushing, Dr. Harvey,
1943-1949
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 22, folder 5
National League of Nursing (Adelaide Muffing medal),
1943-1959
Container Summary: circa 40 items
box 22, folder 6
Weddell, Alexander Memorial Tablet,
1945-1948
Container Summary: circa 30 items, news clippings
Scope and Contents note
Oversize drawings moved to Box 191*, f.10.
box 22, folder 7
Paine, Thomas (Hall of Fame bust, New York University),
1946-1952
Container Summary: circa 30 items and photographs
box 22, folder 8
Commissions not realized,
1945-1967
Container Summary: circa 25 items, 1 photograph
box 22, folder 9
Flagpole, lectures, articles for
Think,
1942-1946
Container Summary: 15 items
box 22, folder 10
Endicott Memorial,
1947-1948
Container Summary: circa 25 items, 1 photo
box 22, folder 11
Memorial book,
1948-1949
Container Summary: circa 30 items, textiles
box 22, folder 12
Miscellaneous correspondence,
1948-1952
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 22, folder 13
Epinal Memorial,
1948-1960
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 22, folder 14
Ramakrishna - Vivekananda Center,
1949-1966
Container Summary: circa 25 items
Epinal Memorial,
1949-1952
box 23, folder 1
Reference materials, booklets, clippings,
1949-1952
Container Summary: circa 15 items, news clippings
box 23, folder 2
Photographs,
1949-1952
Container Summary: 46 items, photographs, news clippings
Kimber Farms, Inc.,
1954-1956
box 23, folder 3
Reference materials,
1954-1956
Container Summary: Three booklets
box 23, folder 4
Genetics Award Medal design,
1954-1956
Container Summary: circa 25 items
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, drawings, photographs.
Oversize drawings moved to Box 191*, folder 10; 1 negative moved to Box 207, folder 6.
box 23, folder 5
Ruth Slenzcynska Medal Design,
1954-1956
Container Summary: circa 40 items
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, drawings and photographs.
Oversize drawings moved to Box 191*, folder 10,
box 23, folder 6
Miscellaneous correspondence and photographs,
1954-1956
Container Summary: 15 items
box 23, folder 7
Gano Dunn award, reference materials,
1961
Container Summary: circa 50 items, news clippings, photographs, 1 watercolor
Henry David Thoreau portrait, Hall of Fame, New York University,
1962-1966
box 23, folder 8
Reference materials,
1962
Container Summary: circa 30 items
Scope and Contents note
News clippings, photographs, drawings.
Oversize drawings moved to Box 191*, folder 10.
box 23, folder 9
Correspondence,
1962-1964
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 23, folder 10
Correspondence regarding 10 inch replicas,
1963-1966
Container Summary: 23 items
box 23, folder 11
Harvie, Eric L. (Glenbow Foundation),
1963-1966
Container Summary: circa 50 items
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, price lists.
box 23, folder 12
Museum Pieces, Inc.,
1961-1966
Container Summary: circa 25 items
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, reference materials.
box 24, folder 1
1913-1919
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 24, folder 2
1920-1930
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 24, folder 3
1930-1939
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 24, folder 4
1940-1950
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 24, folder 5
1945-1949
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 24, folder 6
1951-1959
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 24, folder 7
1960-1964
Container Summary: circa 40 items
Correspondence, invoices, suppliers,
1928-1966
box 25, folder 1
Lists - bronzes made by various foundries,
1928-1966
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 25, folder 2
Roman Bronze Works, correspondence and invoices,
1926-1966
Container Summary: circa 40 items
box 25, folder 3
Rudier Foundry invoices,
1928-1934
Container Summary: 16 items
box 25, folder 4
Cellini Bronze Works, correspondence and invoices,
1926-1966
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 25, folder 5
Grey Iron Casting Co., correspondence,
1946
Container Summary: 10 items
box 25, folder 6
Medallic Art Co., correspondence and invoices,
1941-1967
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 25, folder 7
Modern Art Foundry invoices,
1944-1965
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 25, folder 8
Bedi - Rassy Foundry invoices,
1958-1965
Container Summary: 15 items
box 25, folder 9
Baillie, Robert A. (sculptor, marble cutter), correspondence, invoices,
1921-1930
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 25, folder 10
Miscellaneous correspondence and invoices,
1924, 1928, 1959
Container Summary: 9 items
Correspondence regarding exhibitions, publications, and lectures, Series I.C.
1920-1982
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence in this subseries addresses activities related to Hoffman's exhibitions, publications, and
lectures. Also included here are invoices related to her book
Sculpture Inside and Out, lists of Hoffman's exhibitions, and a folder containing Hoffman's obituaries.
Arrangement
Arrangement is roughly chronological.
box 26, folder 1
Gallery exhibitions: correspondence and invoices,
1920-1967
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 26, folder 2-3
Solo exhibitions: correspondence,
1927-1930
Container Summary: circa 40 items
Traveling exhibition,
1934-1941
box 26, folder 4
Correspondence,
1934-1935
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 26, folder 5
Correspondence, lists,
1935-1937
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 26, folder 6-7
Correspondence, reference materials, lists,
1936-1939
Container Summary: circa 80 items
box 26, folder 8
Correspondence, clippings, photographs,
1937-1941
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 26, folder 9
Correspondence, clippings,
1942
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 26, folder 10
Lists of exhibitions,
1937-1962
Container Summary: 10 items
box 26, folder 11
Correspondence and lists of sculptures shown in various exhibitions,
1942-1967
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 26, folder 12
Guest lists for exhibition openings,
1928-1945
Container Summary: 5 items
box 26, folder 13-14
Grand Central Art Gallery correspondence,
1933-1935
Container Summary: circa 80 items
box 26, folder 15
The Newark Museum exhibition correspondence,
1942-1943
Container Summary: 14 items
box 26, folder 16
The Brooklyn Museum exhibition correspondence, lists,
1945
Container Summary: 15 items
box 26, folder 17
Mount Holyoke College exhibition and lecture correspondence,
1950-1957
Container Summary: 18 items
box 26, folder 18
Memphis, Tennessee Exhibit (1957), correspondence,
1956-1957
Container Summary: 17 items
box 26, folder 19
Hoffman's obituaries; exhibition programs,
1966-1982
Container Summary: 8 items, news clippings
box 26, folder 20
Miscellaneous correspondence, lists,
undated
Container Summary: 3 items
box 26, folder 21
Exhibition photographs,
circa 1930-1967
Container Summary: 21 photographs
Lectures completed,
1938-1944
box 27, folder 1
1938-1939
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 27, folder 2
1940
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 27, folder 3
1941-1944
Container Summary: circa 50 items
Lectures declined,
1935-1958
box 27, folder 4
1935-1938
Container Summary: circa 40 items
box 27, folder 5
1939
Container Summary: circa 40 items
box 27, folder 6
1940
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 27, folder 7
1941-1958
Container Summary: circa 25 items
W. W. Norton, correspondence and invoices regarding
Sculpture Inside and Out,
1938-1964
box 28, folder 1
1938-1939
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 28, folder 2
1940-1947
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 28, folder 3
1948-1964
Container Summary: circa 30 items
Correspondence, war relief, Dance International, and
Dance International Fountain,
Series I.D.
1908-1984, undated
Physical Description:
4 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence and related materials in this subseries pertains to Hoffman's volunteer relief efforts for World Wars I and
II including the Red Cross, Yugoslavian and Serbian war relief, and French artists war relief (Appui aux Artistes). Other
letters and reference materials relate to the Dance International organization and Hoffman's
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races) for the 1939 New York World's Fair. Also included here are miscellaneous correspondence; documents; clippings; press releases;
photographs, studies, and drawings; and inventories and indexes. Among these are indexes to Hoffman's scrapbooks in Series
VIII.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
American Red Cross, Dance International, studio visits,
1915-1957
box 29, folder 1
Music League of America, correspondence, reference materials,
1915-1918
Container Summary: circa 40 items
American Red Cross,
1940-1944
box 29, folder 2
Correspondence,
1940-1944
Container Summary: circa 40 items
box 29, folder 3
Receipts, invoices,
1940-1941
Container Summary: 8 items
box 29, folder 4
Reference materials for Service Pin,
1941
Container Summary: 14 items
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, drawings for service pin, photographs, watercolors.
Air Raid Warden,
1941-1942
box 29, folder 5
Correspondence, clippings and reference materials,
1941-1942
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 29, folder 6
Correspondence, reference materials regarding First Aid exams,
1941-1942
Container Summary: 18 items, plastic Air Raid arm band
box 29, folder 7
Air Raid Warden and Red Cross correspondence and photographs,
1917-1941
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 29, folder 8
Murray Hill Studio reference materials, correspondence, data, plans,
1938-1939
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 29, folder 9
Formal studio visits correspondence,
1937-1957
Container Summary: circa 50 items
Dance International,
1937
box 29, folder 10
Foreign affiliations reference materials,
1937
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 29, folder 11
Foreign countries correspondence, lists, reference materials,
1937
Container Summary: circa 20 items, news clippings
box 29, folder 12-14
Press releases, pamphlets,
1937
Container Summary: circa 65 items
box 29, folder 15
Lists of films and dancers, budgets,
1937
Container Summary: circa 40 items
Dance International, Appui aux Artistes,
1914-1966
Dance International,
1937-1938
box 30, folder 1
Films, dancers' correspondence,
1937-1938
Container Summary: circa 35 items
box 30, folder 2
Miscellaneous correspondence, lists,
circa 1937
Container Summary: circa 50 items, photographs
box 30, folder 3
Maison Nationale de Retraite correspondence, photographs,
1945-1966
Container Summary: circa 25 items
Appui aux Artistes - French Artists War Relief correspondence,
1914-1947, undated
box 30, folder 4
1914-1916
Container Summary: circa 50 items, photographs
box 30, folder 5
1917-1919
Container Summary: circa 35 items
box 30, folder 6
1920-1923
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 30, folder 7
1924-1938
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 30, folder 8
1939-1947
Container Summary: circa 35 items
box 30, folder 9
undated
Container Summary: 25 items
Scope and Contents
With report by Hoffman.
box 30, folder 10
French Artists War Relief lists and log of contributors,
1914-1918
Container Summary: 3 booklets
Yugoslavia/Serbian War Relief,
1908-1937, undated
box 31, folder 1
Kossovo Day celebration,
1918
Container Summary: circa 25 items, news clipping
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reference materials, pamphlets.
box 31, folder 2
Pribicevic, Colonel Milan (portrait),
1918-1920
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 31, folder 3
Tchernoff, Sampson,
undated
Container Summary: circa 25 items
Scope and Contents
Artist. "Begging Boy,", correspondence, postcards, and pamphlet ("Exhibition of Serbian War Pictures").
box 31, folder 4
Trivanovitch, Vaso correspondence,
circa 1918-1937
Container Summary: 13 items, 1 photograph
box 31, folder 5
Yugoslavia correspondence,
circa 1917-1921
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 31, folder 6-7
Yugoslavia reference materials,
undated
Container Summary: circa 45 items
Scope and Contents
Folder 7 contains report on "Impressions and facts," written by Hoffman, pamphlets, 1 picture book on Yugoslavia, other printed
matter.
box 32, folder 1
Yugoslavia clippings, press releases,
1919-1920
Container Summary: circa 40 items
box 32, folder 2
Maps of Yugoslavia and surrounding countries,
undated
Container Summary: 6 maps
box 32, folder 3
American Yugoslav Relief, journals and bulletins (log of contributions),
1908, 1912, 1919
Container Summary: 4 books
box 32, folder 4
Serbian War photographs,
1919
Container Summary: circa 50 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Refer to Box 125, f7 for acetate negatives.
box 32, folder 5
Yugoslavia miscellaneous,
undated
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 32, folder 6
American Red Cross - Mission to the Balkans correspondence,
1918-1920
Container Summary: 19 items
box 32, folder 7
American Relief Administration - correspondence, reference materials,
1919
Container Summary: 8 items
box 32, folder 8
American Yugoslav Relief correspondence,
1918-1919
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 32, folder 9
American Yugoslav Relief correspondence, reference materials,
1920-1921
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 32, folder 10
European Children's Fund correspondence,
1919-1920
Container Summary: 4 items
War Relief - Yugoslavia, Italy-Ethiopia conflict,
1933-1965
box 33, folder 1
American Friends of Yugoslavia,
1941-1964
Container Summary: 11 items
Scope and Contents
News bulletins, pamphlets, annual reports, audits.
box 33, folder 2
American Friends of Yugoslavia correspondence,
1941-1942, 1961-1964
Container Summary: circa 40 items
box 33, folder 3
The United Committee of South Slavic Americans publication,
Bulletin,
1943-1944
box 33, folder 4
United Yugoslav Relief Fund of America, correspondence and news bulletin,
1943-1951, 1965
Container Summary: circa 40 items
box 33, folder 5
United Yugoslav Relief Fund of America correspondence, reports,
1942-1948
Container Summary: 26 items
box 33, folder 6
Yugoslavia (publication),
1942-1943
Container Summary: 5 items, news clipping, photographs
box 33, folder 7
Italy-Ethiopia conflict, correspondence, news articles,
1933-1936
Container Summary: 10 items
Miscellaneous correspondence, photographs, documents, clippings,
1921-1984, undated
box 34, folder 1
List of letters in Red File Box,
undated
Container Summary: 1 item
box 34, folder 2
Miscellaneous photographs,
1958, undated
Container Summary: 6 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Two photographs of Mia Slavenska; one of Hoffman with Salvador Dali; National Arts Club, 1958; Epinal War Memorial; portrait
of "Bill," by John Flanagan.
box 34, folder 3
Field Museum of Natural History, miscellaneous correspondence,
1930-1971
Container Summary: 12 items
Scope and Contents note
Regarding
Portraits of Man exhibition, 1971; Charles Hoffman (nephew of M. Hoffman). With
Museum Bulletin.
box 34, folder 4
Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters office,
1984
Container Summary: 12 items
Scope and Contents note
Bacchanale Frieze was featured in the 1984 Pageant.
box 34, folder 5
Letters to J. Conner (Curator of Hoffman's estate),
1978
Container Summary: 6 items and photographs
Scope and Contents note
Regarding Emma Eames plaque.
box 34, folder 6
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoffman, correspondence,
1979, 1981
Container Summary: 10 items
Scope and Contents note
Regarding donation of
La Frileuse to Jacksonville Children's Hospital in 1979 and 14 studies of the
Bacchanale Frieze to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco in 1981. The donors are Malvina Hoffman's nephew, Charles
Lamson Hoffman and niece-in-law, Barbara Marshall Hoffman.
box 34, folder 7
Pennington, Harper,
The Whistler I Knew,
undated
Container Summary: 1 item
Scope and Contents note
Clipping of story.
box 34, folder 8
Women's Board, Field Museum, miscellaneous correspondence,
1930-1984
Container Summary: 9 items
box 34, folder 9
Play by Henri de Monfried,
undated
Container Summary: 1 item
box 34, folder 10
Milliken Gerrish Mill, blueprints,
undated
Container Summary: 3 items
box 34, folder 11
Exhibition of
Daboa (
African Dancing Girl) and
Mongolian Dancer,
1937
Container Summary: 11 items, news clippings
Scope and Contents note
Programs of events and exhibition catalog.
box 34, folder 12
London Conference of India, "Official Portraits,"
undated
Container Summary: 90 photographs
box 34, folder 13
Printed copies of articles written by Hoffman for
Think magazine,
1944-1946
Container Summary: 2 copies
box 34, folder 14
Pamphlets, photographs and artwork pertaining to "Art Therapy for Disabled Veterans," article written by Hoffman for
Think magazine,
undated
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 34, folder 15
m KHAS-PA-CHEN-PO ELQKA HO-THOG-THU portrait photographs, with list and index of "Mudras" gestures,
undated
Container Summary: 66 photographs
box 34, folder 16
Maps of demographics in Iran and Iraq, Field Museum,
1939
Container Summary: 2 maps
box 35, folder 1
Miscellaneous news clippings about dancing and Hoffman,
1921-1982
Container Summary: circa 50 items
Press releases, bulletins, pamphlets, and catalogs,
1943-1981, undated
Scope and Contents
Regarding exhibitions and donations (Field Museum; Jacksonville University' St. Mary's Hospital (Minnesota); Far Gallery,
New York City).
box 35, folder 2
"Mummies," by Richard A. Martin, Chicago Natural History Museum,
1948
box 35, folder 2
"Aleutian Islander," by George I. Quimby, Chicago Natural History Museum,
1944
box 35, folder 2
"The Races of Mankind," by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish,
undated
box 35, folder 2
"Le rôle de la femme dans une civilisation préhistorique de l'Argentine," by Emile R. Wagner and Duncan L. Wagner,
1937
box 35, folder 2
"La Civilizacion Chaco-Santiagueña y sus correlaciones con las del viejo y nuevo mundo," by Doctor Juan Olsacher, Compañia
Impresora Argentina, S.A.,
1936
Mountford, C. P.,
1936-1981
Scope and Contents
South Australian Museum.
box 35, folder 2
"Aboriginal Decorative Art From Arnhem Land, Northern Territory of Australia,"
1939
box 35, folder 2
"Aboriginal Crayon Drawings IV: Relating to Every-Day Incidents of the Ngada Tribe of the Warburton Ranges of Western Australia,"
1939
box 35, folder 2
"Aboriginal Crayon Drawings III: The Legend of Wati Jula and the Kunkarunkara Women,"
1938
box 35, folder 2
"Women of the Adnjamatana Tribe of the Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia,"
1943, 1936-1981
Physical Description:
18 items
Scope and Contents
By Mountford and Alison Harvey.
box 35, folder 3
Miscellaneous photographs, studies and drawings,
undated
Container Summary: circa 50 items
Scope and Contents note
Includes images of
The Sacrifice,
Bacchanale,
The Offering,
The Cock Fight, and
Column of Life; the Rudier Foundry (negatives moved to Box 207, folder 7); postcards of Mikhail Mordkin; Presbrey-Leland; world tour photographs;
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoffman (Malvina Hoffman's nephew, Charles Lamson Hoffman and niece-in-law, Barbara Marshall Hoffman).
box 36, folder 1
Chronology of one-woman exhibits,
undated
Container Summary: 1 book
box 36, folder 2
Index of scrapbooks,
undated
Container Summary: 2 copies
Index of photographs missing from archive,
undated
box 36, folder 3
Negatives at Peter A. Juley
Scope and Contents note
[See Getty Research Library Special Collections Accession no. 82.P.9 for photographic prints.]
box 36, folder 3
Negatives at F.A.R.L. (Frick Library)
box 36, folder 3
Negatives in M. Hoffman collection
box 36, folder 3
Films and moving pictures
box 36, folder 3
Slides and transparencies
box 36, folder 4-5
Index to exhibition catalogs, articles, fan letters, correspondence,
undated
Datebooks, Series II.
1902-1966, undated
Physical Description:
5 box(es)
Scope and Contents note
Hoffman's datebooks are for the most part appointment books; however, some contain diary entries, letters, and other materials.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
box 37, folder 9
Part I,
1933 July 24 - November
box 37, folder 9
Part II,
1933 March 26/27, 1933 April 1
box 37, folder 9
Part III,
1933 January 1 - April 15
box 37, folder 9
Part IV,
1933 May 7 - 1934 January 6
box 40, folder 7
Collection of favorite poems and plays, transcriptions of Rodin letters, journal,
1902-1914
Scope and Contents note
Transcribed letters from Rodin (see also Box 9) and journal of Hoffman's relationship with him (originally housed in 3-ring
binder).
Summary of diaries,
1914-1961
box 41, folder 1
1944-1947
Scope and Contents note
Contents removed from original binder.
box 41, folder 2
1948-1961
Scope and Contents note
Contents removed from original binder.
Manuscripts, publications, and lectures, Series III.
1913-1966
Physical Description:
9 boxes
Scope and Contents note
The series comprises manuscripts and edited drafts of Hoffman's books,
Sculpture Inside and Out (1939),
Heads and Tales (1943) and
Yesterday Is Tomorrow (1965), and includes publicity materials, letters of endorsement, and reviews. Manuscripts and published copies of several
magazine articles written by Hoffman are also present. Transcripts of lectures given by Hoffman between 1913 and 1949 conclude
the series. Correspondence regarding lectures is found in Series I.C.
Heads and Tales,
1936
Scope and Contents
Hoffman, Malvina.
Heads and Tales. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.
Heads and Tales is Hoffman's account of her travels for the Field Museum
Races of Mankind commission.
box 42, folder 1
Dummies
Scope and Contents
Three dummies.
box 42, folder 2
Cover designs
Scope and Contents
Three samples painted in acrylic.
box 42, folder 3
Samples of Illustrations with captions
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 42, folder 4
Criticisms, endorsements, publicity
Container Summary: circa 12 items
Sculpture Inside and Out,
1939
Scope and Contents
Hoffman, Malvina.
Sculpture Inside and Out. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1939.
Sculpture Inside and Out is Hoffman's instructional guide to making sculpture.
box 43, folder 2-3
Unbound copies
Scope and Contents
Two copies.
box 43, folder 4
Publicity
Container Summary: 4 items
box 43, folder 5
Design for illustration, p.104, figure 71, "Collection of Tools"
Container Summary: 1 item
Yesterday Is Tomorrow: A Personal History,
1938-1966
Scope and Contents
Hoffman, Malvina.
Yesterday Is Tomorrow: A Personal History. New York: Crown, 1965. Hoffman's autobiography.
Arrangement
Arranged by publication type.
box 44, folder 1
"To Oblivion" typescript,
1938-1940
Scope and Contents note
"To Oblivion" was the first title for
Yesterday Is Tomorrow. "Sparks among the Stubble" was its second title.
box 44, folder 2
Yesterday Is Tomorrow, first rewrite,
1950-1954
Scope and Contents
Annotated typescript.
box 44, folder 3
First draft personal section,
1948
Scope and Contents
Annotated typescript.
box 44, folder 4
Corrected manuscript (not final),
1956
Scope and Contents
Annotated typescript.
Volumes I-IV,
1950s-1960s?
box 45, folder 1
Volume I - Ancestors
Scope and Contents
Three-ring binder. Covers the years 1807 to 1882.
box 45, folder 2
Volume IV
Scope and Contents
Covers 1905 to 1910.
box 45, folder 3
Volume IV
Scope and Contents
Covers 1910 to 1940.
box 45, folder 4
Volume III
Scope and Contents
Covers 1942.
Final manuscripts,
1965-1966
box 46, folder 1
Volume I,
1965
Scope and Contents
Leather sheath binder.
box 46, folder 2
Volume II,
1965
Scope and Contents
Leather sheath binder.
box 46, folder 3
Volume III,
1965
Scope and Contents
Leather sheath binder.
box 47, folder 4
"Sparks among the Stubble,"
1951
Scope and Contents
Annotated manuscript, with news clipping.
box 47, folder 5
Yesterday Is Tomorrow, final annotated manuscript, Vol. IV,
circa 1958
box 47, folder 6
Second corrected manuscript with list of contents, Book IV
box 48, folder 2
Miscellaneous items,
1965
Scope and Contents note
H. E. Mendenhall poem, inspired by Hoffman, 1965; commentary on
Yesterday Is Tomorrow, by J. Bernard Zak; notes to publisher.
box 48, folder 3
Clippings, publicity, and correspondence,
circa 1965
Container Summary: circa 30 items, news clippings, photographs
box 48, folder 4
Correspondence regarding permissions for reproduction of photographs and articles by Hoffman,
1920-1963
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 48, folder 5
Manuscripts, articles, and lectures written by Hoffman,
circa 1919-1937
Scope and Contents note
Contains lecture material regarding Dance International and Hoffman's world tour for the Field Museum
Races of Mankind commission. Originally stored in a loose leaf binder.
box 48, folder 6
Manuscripts, articles written by Hoffman,
1933-1946
Container Summary: 4 items
Manuscripts of lectures,
1913-1949
box 49, folder 3
1929-1949
Scope and Contents note
Includes partial list of M. Hoffman lectures.
box 50
Articles written by Hoffman,
1920-1953
Container Summary: circa 35 items
Scope and Contents note
Copies of published articles written by Hoffman.
Periodicals, clippings, and exhibitions catalogs, Series IV.
1915-1982, undated
Physical Description:
7 box(es)
Scope and Contents note
The series comprises exhibition announcements and catalogs; periodical containing articles about Hoffman's work; and reviews
of Hoffman's work and exhibitions. Clippings, periodicals, photographs, and slides relating to other artists and several anthropological
articles are also present here.
Scope and Contents
Arranged by material type.
box 51, box 52
Clippings, articles, and reviews of Hoffman's work,
circa 1920-1966
Container Summary: circa 75 items
box 53
Exhibition announcements cards, photographs of exhibits, and exhibition catalogs,
1915-1980
Container Summary: circa 65 items
Scope and Contents note
Two catalogs moved to Box 210.
box 54
Periodicals relating to Hoffman: articles about Hoffman's work,
1939-1966
Container Summary: circa 35 items
Scope and Contents note
Includes various articles about Hoffman's work, including Epinal and the
Dance International Fountain.
box 55
Periodicals, exhibition catalogs about other artists, and anthropological articles,
circa 1933-1955
Container Summary: circa 35 items
Scope and Contents note
Includes various articles about Iacovleff, Lemordant, and Meštrović, as well as several articles by French ethnographer Marcel
Griaule.
Clippings, photographs, and slides of work by other artists,
1918-1982, undated
box 56, folder 1
"Van Gogh: The Dutch Master from Modern Art Has His Greatest American Show,"
Life magazine,
undated
box 56, folder 2
"Georges Braque: Great French Innovator Has Evolved a Serene Modern Art of His Own,"
Life magazine,
undated
box 56, folder 3
Watson, Ernest, "Georgia O'Keeffe,"
American Artist,
1943 June
box 56, folder 4
Marin, John, "America's Famous Master of Modern Art is Wizard of Watercolors,"
Life magazine,
undated
box 56, folder 5
Rutter, Frank, "William Orpen's Self-Portraits,"
undated
box 56, folder 7
Poster for Russian Ballet,
undated
box 56, folder 8
Photographs of designs and murals by artists in Oslo,
circa 1920-1956
Scope and Contents note
Alf Rolfsen, circa 1930; Axel Revold, circa 1928; Pev Krohg, circa 1925-1933; Aage Storstein, 1938; Henrik Sörensen, 1938;
Edvard Munch, 1928; Erik Werenskiold, circa 1920-1933. Programs for exhibition for Mara Rucki, 1946 and 1956.
box 56, folder 9
"Ville D'Arras - Les Peintures Murales de L'Hôtel De Ville,"
undated
Scope and Contents
With typewritten insert.
box 56, folder 10
"The Van Eyck Altarpiece,"
Life magazine,
undated
box 56, folder 11
Announcement for "Doubt and Other Things," by Elihu Vedder,
undated
Scope and Contents
Verse and illustration.
box 56, folder 12
"La Guerre," par Steinlen (Gordon), Numéro spécial de Mars, 1918 (Quatrième Série de Guerre: Nº 1),
L'Art et les artistes,
1918
Scope and Contents
Monograph with photograph of the artist.
box 56, folder 13
Article on Gaston La Touche,
undated
box 56, folder 14
Huyghe, René, "Georges De La Tour,"
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes postcard.
box 56, folder 15
Clippings of illustrations,
undated
Container Summary: 4 items
box 56, folder 16
Photographs of art workss,
undated
Container Summary: circa 35 items
box 56, folder 17
George Miyasaki,
1982
Container Summary: 12 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slides of his artwork.
Clippings from
Life magazine,
1951-1952, undated
box 57, folder 1
L'Art Eglise, no. 2,
1951-1952
Scope and Contents
With letter stapled inside cover.
box 57, folder 2
Pictures and articles from
Life - list of articles,
undated
Container Summary: 1 item
box 57, folder 3-6
Articles from
Life regarding art and culture,
undated
Container Summary: 45 items
box 57, folder 7
Clippings for scrapbooks,
undated
Container Summary: circa 25 items
Scope and Contents note
Images of Churchill, Eisenhower, others.
box 210
Exhibition catalogs about Malvina Hoffman: Two copies of
Hobbies,
1937
Scope and Contents note
The magazine of the Buffalo Museum of Science, Vol. 17, June 1937 (from Box 53). Mold.
Photographs, Series V.
circa 1910-1964, undated
Physical Description:
81 box(es)
Scope and Contents note
The series comprises photographs related to Hoffman's professional life as well as her personal life. It is divided into three
subseries that often contain overlapping groups of material.
The photograph albums in Series V.A. document Hoffman's field research and photographic studies of the individuals Hoffman
used as life models for the sculptures for
The Races of Mankind exhibit, commissioned by the Field Museum of Natural History in 1930. The albums cover the duration of the project, beginning
in 1930 with Hoffman's eight-month world tour and ending with the installation of the sculptures in the Hall of Man at the
Field Museum in 1933. Included are eight albums devoted to facial studies.
Series V.B. contains photograph albums and binders of photographs documenting Hoffman's professional and personal lives. Several
binders are filled with photographs of her portrait sculptures and major commissions such as the Bush House, the
The Races of Mankind, the Joslin Hospital panels, and the
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races), as well as images of her smaller projects. Also present are photographic studies for the
Bacchanale Frieze, a project of 26 relief panels that Hoffman worked on intermittently for ten years. Complementing these studies are personal
photographs of Hoffman with Pavlova, along with books and concert programs of Pavlova's performances. Other photographs document
Hoffman's travels, such as her trip to Serbia for the Yugoslavian war relief effort and her friendships. Finally, a small
photo archive of work by Auguste Rodin, Ivan Meštrović, and Jean Julien Lemordant is supported by news clippings, scrapbooks,
and exhibition catalogs. Each binder of photographs includes an index to the images contained within it.
Series V.C. comprises negatives, lantern slides, and copper printing plates and includes personal images (Hoffman, family,
and friends), images from Hoffman's world trip, and images of Hoffman's work. Acetate, nitrate, and glass negatives are present
in this subseries. The lantern slides are primarily related to Yugoslavian War Relief although small groups of lantern slides
depicting a ballet performance and views of gardens and garden sculptures are also present. Copper plates used for printing
illustrations of Hoffman's work conclude the series.
Arrangement
The series is arranged in three subseries: Series V.A.: Photograph albums for
The Races of Mankind, 1930-1933; Series V.B.: Photographs of projects, volunteer activities, and personal life,
circa 1910-1964, undated; and Series V.C.: Negatives, lantern slides, and copper printing plates,
1912-1964, undated.
Photograph albums for
The Races of Mankind,
Series V.A.
1930-1933
Physical Description:
8 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
The albums cover the duration of the project, beginning in 1930 with Hoffman's eight-month world tour, and ending with the
installation of the sculptures in the Hall of Man at the Field Museum in 1933. Included are eight albums devoted to facial
studies.
box 58A
Index to albums of facial studies,
between 1930 and 1933
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of handwritten index. The albums (Box 58-Box 64) are not in the same order as the index, but each image in the albums
is numbered and the index is keyed to these numbers. Another copy of the index is in Box 107A, Folder 5.
box 58, box 59, box 60, box 61, box 62, box 63, box 64
Albums of facial studies,
between 1930 and 1933
Scope and Contents
Eight albums.
box 65
"Africa, Volume I" (World Tour),
between 1930 and 1933
box 66
"Africa, Volume II" (World Tour),
between 1930 and 1933
box 67
"India" (World Tour),
between 1930 and 1933
box 68
"American Indian; Mayan; Hawaii; New Zealand; Andaman; Ainu; Japan" (World Tour),
between 1930 and 1933
box 69
"Hall of Man, Volume I,"
circa 1933
Scope and Contents note
Includes list of works in the museum.
box 70
"Hall of Man, Volume II,"
circa 1933
Scope and Contents note
Includes list of works in the museum.
box 71
"Hall of Man - Africa,"
circa 1933
box 72
"Hall of Man - Pacific,"
circa 1933
box 73
"Hall of Man - Pacific - Malay,"
circa 1933
box 74
"Small Photographs of Hall of Man Sculptures,"
circa 1933
Photographs of projects, volunteer activities, and personal life, Series V.B.
circa 1910-1964, undated
Physical Description:
12 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains photograph albums and binders of photographs documenting Hoffman's professional and personal lives.
Several binders are filled with photographs of her portrait sculptures and major commissions such as the Bush House, the
The Races of Mankind, the Joslin Hospital panels, and the
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races), as well as images of her smaller projects. Also present are photographic studies for the
Bacchanale Frieze, a project of 26 relief panels that Hoffman worked on intermittently for ten years. Complementing these studies are personal
photographs of Hoffman with Pavlova, along with books and concert programs of Pavlova's performances. Other photographs document
Hoffman's travels, such as her trip to Serbia for the Yugoslavian war relief effort and her friendships. Finally, a small
photo archive of work by Auguste Rodin, Ivan Meštrović, and Jean Julien Lemordant is supported by news clippings, scrapbooks,
and exhibition catalogs. Each binder of photographs includes an index to the images contained within it.
box 75
"Serbian War Photographs,"
circa 1919
Scope and Contents note
Loose photographs and news clippings moved to Box 64, Folder 2.
box 76
"Trip through Yugoslavia and Greece; American Red Cross; American Relief Administration,"
circa 1919
Scope and Contents note
Loose photographs and news clippings moved to Box 87, Folder 1.
box 77
"World Trip,"
1930-1935, 1953
Scope and Contents note
"Peking; Hong Kong; Macassar; Bali; Java; Malay Jungle; Burma; India; Ceylon; Suez; Paris, 1953; New Mexico, 1934; Paris,
1935."
(ie: Beijing, Hong Kong, Bali, Java, Malaysian Jungle, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka, Suez...)
box 78
1919-1923
Scope and Contents note
"Paris, 1919; Norton, CT 1920; Bar Harbor, 1920; Tyringham, 1921; Thousand Islands, 1920; England, 1923; Budapest, 1923."
box 79
circa 1929
Scope and Contents note
"Paris Villa Chauvelot, 1929; Kossovo with Milan Pribicevic, 1929" (includes studies for
Breton Wrestlers. Loose photographs moved to Box 87, f.4.)
box 80
Personal photographs,
1937-1944
Scope and Contents note
Loose photographs moved to Box 87, f.5.
box 81
circa 1936-1938
Scope and Contents note
"1936 - Nevada; California; Blerencourt, Scotland; Isle of Skye; Brittany 1937 - New York Studio; Anne Morgan; Yugoslavia;
Louise Branch; Meštrović; Venice; Paris; Fair 1938 - New York Studio."
box 82
circa 1935-1936
Scope and Contents note
"July 1935 - Scotland; Paris; Brittany, 1935-1936 - Mt. Kisco, 1936 - New York Studio."
box 83
circa 1924
Scope and Contents note
"Hartsdale; Prides Crossing; Meštrović in New York; Liverpool Cathedral; Bush House; France; Brittany; Riviera; Africa; d'Jerba;
Zagreb; New York; Zaraga; Exposition Colonial Paris; Villa Asti; Santa Barbara; Hawaii; Japan; Ainus; Limét; 1924"
box 84
"Photo Album, New England, etc."
1939-1945
Personal photographs,
1940-1964
Photographs,
1919-1944, undated
box 87, folder 1
Loose photograph from "Trip through Yugoslavia..." album,
circa 1919
Scope and Contents
Moved from Box 76.
box 87, folder 2
Loose photographs and news clippings from "Serbian War Photographs" album,
circa 1919
Container Summary: 17 items
Scope and Contents
Moved from Box 75.
box 87, folder 3
Scrapbook, "Bernard's Cloister Sculpture,"
undated
Container Summary: 3 items, photographs
box 87, folder 4
Loose photographs from 1929 album,
1929
Scope and Contents
Moved from Box 79.
box 87, folder 5
Loose photographs from personal photographs album,
1937-1944
Container Summary: 4 items
Scope and Contents
Moved from Box 80. Includes photographs of Emma Eames as "Desdemona" and Sam Grimson.
Personal photographs of Hoffman, her artwork, and friends,
1936-1937
Scope and Contents note
Binder indexed in four parts; for items below, refer to index found in binders.
box 88
Part I
Container Summary: 29 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Includes images of Thamara Lirrskaya; Dr. Fraenkel; Ernest Schelling and Enrique Granados; Appui aux Artistes; Hoffman with
Sam Grimson on their wedding day; Julia Dodge (Rea); Katherine Rhoades; Brearley School; Eugene Rudier; Paul M. Warburg; Thomas
J. Watson; Robert Baillie; "Pressure Points" (anatomical model); Madhavan (Shankar Ballet Co.).
box 88
Part II
Scope and Contents note
Trip to England and Scotland with Anne Morgan, Helen Draper, Bessie Lovett, Lady Reading.
box 88
Part III
Container Summary: 21 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Portrait photographs (facial studies for portraits including Myrio and Desha; C. D. Batilliedlder; Colonel Milan Pribićivić;
Chana Orloff; Marguerite Yourcenar; Edouard Shuré; Emma Eames; William A. Delano; Mei Lan-fang; and Marcel Griaule.
box 88
Part IV: Paul Draper
Container Summary: 1 clipping, 5 photographs.
Personal photographs; projects (
The Races of Mankind (Hall of Man),
circa 1930-1933, udated
Scope and Contents note
Binder indexed in five parts.
box 89
Part I: Portraits of Hoffman by other artists,
undated
Physical Description: 16 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs of works by Meštrović; Angel Zarreega; C. D. Batelielder; A. Iacovleff; P. De Lanux, Belskie; and a self-portrait
by Hoffman.
box 89
Part II: Kiki,
undated
Container Summary: 1 clipping, 9 photographs, 1 booklet
box 89
Part III: Greeting cards,
undated
Container Summary: 6 photographs
box 89
Part IV: Hall of Man,
Unity of Mankind centerpiece,
circa 1930-1933
Container Summary: 7 photographs
box 89
Part V: Portraits of Asian "racial types,"
circa 1930-1933
Container Summary: 59 photographs
Projects (
The Races of Mankind (Hall of Man),
circa 1930-1933
Scope and Contents note
Binder indexed in five parts.
box 90
Part I: Portraits of Oceanic and Australian "racial types"
Container Summary: 29 photographs
box 90
Part II: Portraits of European "racial types"
Container Summary: 23 photographs
box 90
Part III: Portraits of North American "racial types"
Container Summary: 7 photographs
box 90
Part IV: Portraits of South American "racial types"
Container Summary: 2 photographs
box 90
Part V: Portraits of Central American "racial types"
Container Summary: 1 photograph
Projects:
The Races of Mankind, Bush House,
circa 1924-1933
Scope and Contents note
Binder indexed in three parts.
box 91
Part I: Portraits of African "racial types,"
circa 1930-1933
Container Summary: 26 photographs
box 91
Part II: World Tour, personal photographs,
circa 1930-1933
box 91
Part III: Bush House,
To the Friendship of the English Speaking Peoples,
circa 1924
Container Summary: 10 clippings, 2 drawings, 1 invitation, 3 personal notes, 42 photographs, 1 program
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings and photographs documenting the progress and installation of this project.
Projects (New York World's Fair, Joslin Hospital),
1939, 1956
Scope and Contents note
Binder indexed in two parts.
box 92
Part I:
Dance International Fountain, New York World's Fair,
1939
Container Summary: 12 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Photographs of plasters and models of the fountain in Hoffman's studio.
box 92
Part II: The Evolution of Medicine - Joslin Hospital, Boston, MA,
1956
Container Summary: 12 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Photographs of panels representing people throughout history who made significant contributions to medicine and to the treatment
of diabetes.
Projects (monuments and portraits),
1922-1957, undated
Scope and Contents note
Binder indexed in five parts.
box 93
Part I: Series of bronze doors and cemetery stones,
undated
Container Summary: 7 photographs
box 93
Part II: Presbrey Leland Company,
undated
Container Summary: 2 letters, 28 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Photographs of miscellaneous commissioned monuments. Presbrey-Leland Inc., is a company that produces burial memorials and
monuments.
box 93
Part III: Ignace Paderewski,
1922-1923
Container Summary: 8 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Photographic studies and portraits.
box 93
Part IV: Père Teilhard de Chardin,
undated
Container Summary: 9 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Photographs studies and portrait.
box 93
Part V: John Keats,
1957
Container Summary: 2 clippings, 3 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Portrait studies and articles.
Photographs relating to Hoffman's work and personal friendships,
1917-1924, undated
Scope and Contents note
Binder indexed in five parts.
box 94
Part I: Hoffman photographed with her work,
undated
Container Summary: 35 photographs
box 94
Part II: -
Bacchanale, bas-reliefs,
1924
Container Summary: 1 lithograph, 21 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs of Pavlova and Pavley posing for the panels.
box 94
Part III:
La Bacchanale Russe, group sculpture,
1917
Container Summary: 8 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Photographs of Hoffman with sculpture in Luxembourg Gardens.
box 94
Part IV:
La Péri,
1921
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs of Pavley and Pavlova posing for the sculpture.
Container Summary
13 photographs
box 94
Part V: Anna Pavlova,
undated
Physical Description: 15 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Personal photographs with Hoffman, including Pavlova as the
Byzantine Madonna.
Photographs relating to Hoffman's work and personal friendships,
undated
Scope and Contents note
Binder indexed in seven parts.
box 95
Part I: Anna Pavlova
Container Summary: 8 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Includes dancer posing for her role as
Immortal Swan, by Nakhimoff and as
La Gavotte for Hoffman.
box 95
Part II: The Rudier Foundry, Paris
Container Summary: 30 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs of Pierre and Jean Limet.
box 95
Part III: Hoffman's New York studio
Container Summary: 9 photographs
box 95
Part IV: Hoffman's Paris studio
Container Summary: 17 photographs
Scope and Contents
With Sam Grimson and cat Kiki.
box 95
Part V: Hoffman's models
Container Summary: 12 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs of Shan-Kar ballet dancer, the Snow Leopard, Richard Hoffman, and child model for
La Frileuse.
box 95
Part VI: Hoffman as model for her own sculptures
Container Summary: 4 photographs
box 95
Part VII: Hoffman's students
Container Summary: 3 photographs
Miscellaneous photographs,
undated
box 96
Artworks by other artists
Container Summary: 92 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Photographs of art work by Michelangelo; Herbert Haseltine; Daniel Chestor French; Jozha Kljakovic; Chana Orloff; and Donald
De Lue.
box 97, folder 1
Rita de Acosta Lydig
Container Summary: 3 photographs
Scope and Contents
Also includes unidentified persons.
box 97, folder 2
Autographed photographs
Container Summary: 2 photographs
Scope and Contents
Includes an autographed photograph of T. Oucrainsky.
box 97, folder 3
Bush House
Container Summary: 5 photographs, 1 booklet
Scope and Contents note
Related to Box 91.
box 97, folder 4
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races)
Container Summary: 1 photograph
Scope and Contents note
Related to Box 92.
box 97, folder 5
Ignace Paderewski, portrait studies
Container Summary: 1 photograph
Scope and Contents note
Related to Box 93.
box 97, folder 6
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, portrait studies
Container Summary: 6 photographs, 1 booklet
Scope and Contents note
Related to Box 93.
box 97, folder 7
John Keats, portrait studies
Container Summary: 1 photograph
Scope and Contents note
Related to Box 93.
box 97, folder 8
Helen Frick, portrait studies
Container Summary: 4 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Related to Box 93.
box 97, folder 9
Assorted works by Hoffman
Container Summary: 14 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Includes portraits of Frances Rich; Colonel Milan Pribićević; Rita de Acosta Lydig; Richard Hoffman; Drs. William Henry Draper
and William Kinnicut Draper; Peacock wall fountain (1925); bas-relief for Mahanoy City Post Office (
Coal Miners Returning from Work, 1939),
Christ on the Cross (1942);
Christ Walking on Water (bronze statuette, 1946); and
Boy Neptune (fountain, 1925).
box 97, folder 10
Bacchanale Russe and
La Péri - Pavley and Pavlova
Container Summary: 21 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Related to Box 94.
box 97, folder 11
Photographs of other artists' work
Container Summary: 3 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Related to Box 96. Includes S. Tchernoff's
Begging Boy and Herbert Haseltine. Negatives transferred to Box 125.
box 98
Photo album, Dessins par Jean Julien Lemordant,
undated
Lemordant, Jean-Julien / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
undated
box 99, folder 1
Scrapbook of Jean-Julien Lemordant I
Scope and Contents note
Black leather three-ring binder, includes index to all three binders.
box 99, folder 2
Scrapbook of Jean-Julien Lemordant II
Scope and Contents
Black leather three-ring binder.
box 99, folder 3
Scrapbook of Jean-Julien Lemordant III
Scope and Contents
Black leather three-ring binder.
box 99, folder 4
Jean-Julien Lemordant clippings and photographs
Container Summary: circa 15 items
box 99, folder 5
Jean-Julien Lemordant exhibit announcements and review articles
Container Summary: circa 15 items
box 99, folder 6
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Container Summary: circa 15 items
Scope and Contents
Articles and books about Teilhard de Chardin.
box 101, folder 1-5
Photographs of work by Meštrović
Container Summary: circa 125 items
box 101, folder 6-7
Pamphlets, exhibition announcements, clippings, and photographs
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 101, folder 8-9
News clippings
Container Summary: circa 30 items
Meštrović / Lemordant,
undated
box 102*, folder 1
Photographs and exhibition announcements regarding Meštrović
Container Summary: circa 20 items
Scope and Contents note
Transferred from Box 101.
box 102*, folder 2
News clippings, photographs, and announcements regarding Lemordant and exhibitions
Container Summary: 2 items
Scope and Contents note
Transferred from Box 99.
Pavlova, Anna; Moore, Marianne; Shankar, Uday; Alexander, Arsène,
undated
box 103, folder 1
Booklets and programs
Container Summary: circa 15 items
box 103, folder 2
Record of the Metropolitan Opera benefit
Container Summary: circa 10 items, news clippings
box 103, folder 3
Clippings and obituaries
Container Summary: circa 20 items, news clippings
box 103, folder 4
Books and programs
Container Summary: 5 items
box 103, folder 5
Marianne Moore, clippings
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 103, folder 6
Uday Shankar, booklets and photographs
Container Summary: circa 30 items, news clippings, 1 strip of negatives
box 103, folder 7
Alexander, Arsène article in French and English about Hoffman
Physical Description: 1 item
box 104, folder 1
Key to Hôtel Biron
Scope and Contents
In leather box.
box 104, folder 2
The Races of Mankind exhibition booklet
Container Summary: 9 copies
box 104, folder 3
Rudier Collection of Rodin pieces
Container Summary: 1 album
box 104, folder 4
Photographs of Rodin's work in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 104, folder 5
Items related to Rodin
Container Summary: 2 items
Scope and Contents note
List of Rodin sculptures at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; envelope with Rodin quotations read at William
K. Draper's funeral (Hoffman's brother in law).
box 104, folder 6
Catalogs and books
Container Summary: circa 15 items
box 104, folder 7
News clipping about Hoffman
Photographs of Rodin and his work,
1922-1938, undated
box 105, folder 1
Rodin with family and friends,
undated
Container Summary: 26 photographs, 1 drawing, 1 negative
Scope and Contents note
Isadora Duncan, Malvina Hoffman; Rodin on his deathbed.
box 105, folder 2
Photographs of Rodin's work,
undated
Container Summary: 54 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Work in plaster, stone, and bronze.
box 105, folder 3
Miscellaneous photographs,
1936, 1938
Container Summary: 9 items
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs of Hôtel Biron and the Chapel of the Sacred Heart; an album "Photographs of Works in New York, 1936,"
with a letter from Rudier inside; and a list entitled "Books Contained in Library at Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, 1938."
box 105, folder 4
"Musée Rodin (Hôtel Biron),"
1922
Physical Description:
1 album(s)
Photographs, magazine articles, drawings about Auguste Rodin,
1911-1933, undated
box 106*, folder 1
Photographs, postcards, and booklet about Rodin,
circa 1933
Container Summary: circa 10 items
Magazine articles about Rodin,
1911-1919, undated
box 106*, folder 2
"Le Musée Rodin,"
1919
Scope and Contents
L'Art et les artistes.
box 106*, folder 2
Parker Tyler, "Rodin and Freud: Masters of Ambivalence,"
undated
box 106*, folder 2
"Rodin and the Tragedy of Sculpture,"
undated
box 106*, folder 2
Robert MacCameron, "Auguste Rodin: His Life and Work, with a Consideration of the Proposed Room in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art,"
1911 February 4
Scope and Contents
Town & Country, v. 65, no. 47.
box 106*, folder 3
"L'Exil de Rodin,"
circa 1935
Scope and Contents
Le Magazine d'Aujourd'hui.
box 106*, folder 4
Miscellaneous works by or about Rodin,
circa 1910-1912
Container Summary: 3 items
Scope and Contents note
Includes sketch of Rodin by Hoffman; "Mon Cher Maître" (1910), a caricature of Rodin from
Vanity Fair; a photo of a Rodin bust (inscribed by Rodin to Duchesse de Choiseuil, and from the Duchesse to M. Hoffman in 1912).
box 106*, folder 5-7
Photographs of Rodin's work,
undated
Container Summary: 29 photographs
Indices and lists related to photographs and negatives,
1930-1934, undated
box 107A, folder 1
Notes on Hoffman's world trip and photographs,
circa 1934?
Container Summary: 24 pages
Scope and Contents note
Twenty-four pages of typed comments by Hoffman on sources of photographic images (lantern slides ?), some appear to be notes
for a slide lecture or a showing of Hoffman's films.
box 107A, folder 2
Index cards and lists,
undated
Container Summary: 7 pieces
Scope and Contents note
Index cards for "Sculpture of Garden Architecture" lecture, circa 28 cards; list of images typed on large cards, arranged
by country.
box 107A, folder 3
Photocopies of indices to negatives,
undated
Scope and Contents note
Indices to Negative binders 2, 3, and 4 (taken from negative box) from which the negatives in Box 109 were re-housed. Copies
of these lists are also in Box 109. (See also Box 111.)
box 107A, folder 4
Hall of Man sculptures - negative lists,
between 1930 and 1933
Container Summary: 7 items (18 pages)
Scope and Contents note
Races of Mankind project. Photocopied indices from Negative volumes I-IV. (Refers to negatives now housed in Boxes 116-124, with another copy
of the lists.) Includes two pages typewritten "Description of Bone Armour, Pekin; by Professor Lessing."
box 107A, folder 5
Index to images in the Albums of facial studies,
between 1930 and 1933
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies of handwritten indices to images in the albums in Boxes 58-64. Another copy is found in Box 58A.
box 107A, folder 6
Labels for Hall of Man bronzes,
between 1930 and 1933
Scope and Contents note
Printed labels in buckrum case.
Negatives, lantern slides, and copper printing plates, Series V.C.
1912-1964, undated
Physical Description:
10 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
The subseries comprises negatives, lantern slides, and copper printing plates and includes personal images (Hoffman, family,
and friends), images from Hoffman's world trip, and images of Hoffman's work. Acetate, nitrate, and glass negatives are present
in this subseries. The lantern slides are primarily related to Yugoslavian War Relief although small groups of lantern slides
depicting a ballet performance and views of gardens and garden sculptures are also present. Copper plates used for printing
illustrations of Hoffman's work conclude the series.
Personal photographs,
undated
Scope and Contents
Glass and acetate negatives.
box 107, folder 1
Hoffman with Anna Pavlova and other images, including paintings by Hoffman
Container Summary: circa 15 items
box 107, folder 2
Paintings by Hoffman; "Kiki," "Nursie," drawing by Hoffman, circa 1929 (magazine cover illustration), and sculpture by Alexander
Iacovleff,
circa 1929
Container Summary: circa 15 items
box 107, folder 3
Paris villa, in the studio, and other images
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 107, folder 4
Portrait of Samuel Grimson
Container Summary: circa 5 items
box 107, folder 5
Richard and Fidelia Lamson Hoffman, family portraits
Container Summary: circa 5 items
Negatives,
1912-1939, undated
Glass and acetate negatives, lantern slides,
1930-1931, undated
box 108, folder 1
Miscellaneous images,
undated
Container Summary: circa 90 items
Scope and Contents note
Includes images of world trip, Kiki, others.
box 108, folder 2
Altamira Caves,
undated
Container Summary: circa 35 items
box 108, folder 3
Monet in his garden,
undated
Container Summary: circa 25 items
box 108, folder 4
Sculpture in gardens (Europe),
undated
Container Summary: circa 70 items
Scope and Contents note
England, Switzerland, Spain, Italy.
box 108, folder 5
Sculpture in gardens (France),
undated
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 108, folder 6
Sculpture in gardens (United States),
undated
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 109, folder 1
Glass negatives, lantern slides,
1930-1931, undated
Container Summary: circa 15 items
Scope and Contents note
Glass negatives of Paris from the world trip, 1930-1931; lantern slides for Hoffman's lecture, "Sculpture of Garden Architecture."
box 109, folder 3
Film negative strip,
undated
Scope and Contents note
8 mm negative film with ten frames.
Pavlova and dance sculptures,
undated
box 110, folder 1
Bacchanale,
La Péri,
Les Orientales,
Russian Dancers, and Serge Oukrainsky lithograph
Container Summary: 13 items
Scope and Contents note
Glass negatives.
box 110, folder 2
Mort Exquise,
Gavotte, and
Bacchanale
Container Summary: circa 10 items
Scope and Contents note
Glass and acetate negatives.
box 111
Small format negatives,
undated
Container Summary: circa 200 items
Scope and Contents note
Negatives, binders 2-4; small images of gardens and garden sculpture and an inventory. See also Box 107A, Folder 3.
Sculptures by Hoffman,
1912-1939, undated
Scope and Contents
Glass negatives.
box 112, folder 1
Bacchanale and
Ballet Russe,
undated
Container Summary: circa 10 items
box 112, folder 2
Mordkin Laughing,
Woman Dancing (
Bacchanale),
undated
Container Summary: circa 10 items
box 112, folder 3
La Frileuse,
La femme de trente ans,
Gargoyle - Grotesque Mandolin Player,
Fawn Surprised (ballet dancer -
L'Après-midi d'un faune),
1912
Container Summary: circa 10 items
box 112, folder 4
Pavlova and Hoffman,
undated
Container Summary: circa 5 items
box 112, folder 5
New York World's Fair and
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races),
circa 1937-1939
Container Summary: 5 items
Bacchanale frieze,
undated
box 113, folder 1
Pavlova and Mordkin posing for
Bacchanale frieze
Container Summary: circa 13 items
Scope and Contents
Acetate negatives and contact sheets.
box 113, folder 2-3
Bacchanale frieze
Container Summary: circa 20 items
Scope and Contents
Glass negatives.
box 113, folder 4
Bacchanale frieze panels
Container Summary: circa 25 items
Scope and Contents
Acetate negatives.
box 114, folder 1
Pavlova and Mordkin posing for
Bacchanale frieze
Container Summary: circa 30 items
Scope and Contents
Glass negatives.
Races of Mankind (Hall of Man), Indian dancers,
1937, undated
box 114, folder 2
Assorted dance and
Races of Mankind (Hall of Man) sculptures,
undated
Container Summary: circa 30 items
Scope and Contents note
Acetate negatives; 1 negative moved to Box 208.
box 115, folder 1
Field Museum plasters (Asian dancers, etc.),
undated
Container Summary: 20 items
Scope and Contents
Glass negatives.
box 115, folder 2
Hindu Dancers -- Shankar and Madhavan,
1937
Container Summary: 6 items
Scope and Contents note
Glass negatives. Depicts a series of South Indian Mudras with the title of each position given.
box 115, folder 3
Madhavan (East Indian dancer from ballet company),
undated
Container Summary: circa 35 items
Scope and Contents note
Acetate negatives; three damaged negatives moved to Box 208. Madhavan was an East Indian dancer from a ballet company.
World Tour and
Races of Mankind (Hall of Man),
circa 1930-1934, undated
Scope and Contents note
See photocopied list of images in Box 107A.
box 116, folder 1
Glass negatives for lecture,
1933
Container Summary: 20 items
Scope and Contents note
For lecture at Colony Club regarding world trip and "racial types."
Acetate negatives,
circa 1930-1934
box 116, folder 2
Volume I
Container Summary: 89 items
Scope and Contents note
World tour. Three damaged negatives moved to Box 208. See negative list, Box 107A, Folder 4.
box 116, folder 3
Volume II
Container Summary: 46 negatives
Scope and Contents note
World tour. See negative list, Box 107A, Folder 4.
box 116, folder 4
Volume III
Container Summary: 125 negatives
Scope and Contents note
World tour. See negative list, Box 107A, Folder 4.
box 116, folder 5
Volume IV
Container Summary: 108 negatives
Scope and Contents note
World tour. See negative list, Box 107A, Folder 4.
box 116, folder 6
Races of Mankind (Hall of Man)
Container Summary: 6 negatives
box 116, folder 7
India (World Tour)
Container Summary: 56 negatives
box 116, folder 8
China (World Tour)
Container Summary: 85 negatives
Glass negatives,
1930-1934, undated
box 117, folder 1
Races of Mankind (Hall of Man) sculptures,
circa 1930-1934
Container Summary: circa 45 items
box 117, folder 2
List of glass and acetate negatives,
Races of Mankind (Hall of Man) sculptures,
circa 1930-1934
Container Summary: 6 items
Scope and Contents
Photocopy. See Box 107A, Folder 4 for another copy of the list.
box 118, folder 1
World Tour,
1930-1932
Container Summary: 13 items
box 118, folder 2
Races of Mankind (Hall of Man) bronzes,
circa 1930-1934
Container Summary: 24 items
Scope and Contents note
1 group of acetate negatives moved to Box 209.
box 118, folder 3
1930-1932
Container Summary: 22 items
Scope and Contents note
Includes images of Roma dancers and Jaipur, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Brittany - St. Guénolé and La Malvi
Calvaire; Paris (Villa Asti); Pierre and Fils Limet; and New York -
L'après midi d'un faune.
box 118, folder 4
circa 1930-1932
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 119, folder 1
1931-1932
Container Summary: 17 items
Scope and Contents note
"Racial Types," taken by Grimson.
box 119, folder 2
Glass negatives, photographs,
undated
Container Summary: 8 items
box 120, folder 1
World Tour,
circa 1930-1933
Container Summary: circa 60 items
Scope and Contents note
Images by Hoffman and Grimson.
box 121, folder 1
Portraits and sculptures
Container Summary: 17 items
Scope and Contents
Glass negatives.
box 121, folder 2
Acetate negatives
Container Summary: circa 15 items
Scope and Contents note
Keats, Moore, Morgan, others.
box 121, folder 3
Glass negatives
Container Summary: 9 items
Scope and Contents note
Robert Bacon.
Negatives, lantern slides: portraits, Dance International / New York World's Fair,
circa 1912-1964
box 122, folder 1
Portraits by Hoffman,
circa 1912-1964
Scope and Contents note
Acetate negatives. Dr. Charles Malik, 1956; Henry de Monfried, 1954; Henry David Thoreau, 1962; John Keats, 1912-1926; Ivan
Meštrović, 1947; Father Teilhard de Chardin, 1948, 1964; Marshall Field, 1958; Marguerite Yourcenar, 1962; Mr. Bayard Dodge,
1962; Professor Hockin; Katherine Cornell (acetate negatives for
Dance International Fountain, New York World's Fair, circa 1937-1939).
box 122, folder 2
Lantern slides used for "War and Relief in Serbia" lecture,
circa 1919
Container Summary: circa 10 items
box 122, folder 3
"Views of the Balkans,"
circa 1919
Container Summary: circa 10 items
Scope and Contents
Glass negatives.
box 122, folder 4
Serbian drawings,
circa 1919
Container Summary: circa 10 items
Scope and Contents
Glass negatives.
box 122, folder 5
"Serbian War photographs,"
1919
Container Summary: 2 items
Scope and Contents note
Lantern slides. Moved from the photograph album in Box 75.
box 123
Portraits,
undated
Scope and Contents note
Glass negatives. James Greenleaf Croswell; Richard Hoffman;
L'Offrande;
Sacrifice; and Henry Clay Frick.
Negatives of work by Hoffman,
undated
box 124
Sacrifice; Paderewski; Boldini; Emma Eames; and
The Mattress Maker [Edouard Schuré],
undated
Container Summary: circa 20 items
Scope and Contents note
Glass negatives.
box 125, folder 1
Acetate negatives, Binder 1
Container Summary: circa 30 items
Scope and Contents note
With photocopied list of negatives. One negative moved to Box 208, Folder 1.
box 125, folder 2
Bullfight series
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 125, folder 3
Epstein memorial
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 125, folder 4
Various portraits and other works
Container Summary: circa 20 items
Scope and Contents note
Edouard Shuré;
Mattress Maker; Paderewski; Ivan Meštrović;
Hand of Jean-Julien Lemordant; others.
box 125, folder 5
Surprise, Joslin Hospital panels, Epinal monument
Container Summary: circa 15 items
Scope and Contents note
Also includes glass negatives.
box 125, folder 7
"Serbian War photographs"
Container Summary: circa 25 items
Scope and Contents note
Removed from Box 32, Folder 4.
box 125, folder 6
Pavlova;
Bacchanale;
Shilluk Warrior; and
Hindu Incense Burner,
undated
Container Summary: 12 items
Scope and Contents note
Negative strips. 35mm Kodak film moved from Box 97.
Negatives, lantern slides,
1957, undated
box 126, folder 1
Rudier Foundry,
Elemental Man, and
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races),
undated
Container Summary: 15 items
Scope and Contents
Glass negatives.
Lantern slides,
1957, undated
box 126, folder 2
"American Friends of France," World War II, Anne Morgan, others,
undated
Container Summary: 11 items
box 126, folder 3
Finished panels
Container Summary: 6 items
box 126, folder 4
Medical data for panels
Container Summary: 8 items
box 126, folder 5
Various
Container Summary: 7 items
box 126, folder 6
Miscellaneous portraits, sculptures,
undated
Container Summary: circa 15 items
Scope and Contents
Glass negatives.
box 126, folder 7
Miscellaneous sculptures,
Undated
Container Summary: circa 30 items
Scope and Contents note
Acetate negatives and lantern slides. American Friends of France,
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races), "Progress tests - unfinished Epinal."
Negatives of work by Hoffman,
undated
box 127, folder 1
Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
Container Summary: circa 10 items
box 127, folder 2
Photo murals
Container Summary: circa 50 items
box 127, folder 3
The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
Container Summary: circa 20 items
box 127, folder 4
Sculpture Inside and Out
Container Summary: circa 50 items
Negatives, lantern slides: works by Hoffman,
undated
box 128, folder 2
Unidentified
Container Summary: circa 50 items
Scope and Contents note
With a list.
box 128, folder 3
Acetate negatives
Container Summary: circa 35 items
Scope and Contents note
Includes S. Grimson's images and foundry images.
Damaged acetate negatives,
undated
Scope and Contents
Most of the damaged acetate negatives were moved from other locations in Series V. These materials are restricted.
box 207, folder 1
Pièrre Teilhard de Chardin
Scope and Contents
Acetate negative. From Box 93, Photo Studies of Teilhard.
box 207, folder 2
Color prints
Container Summary: 3 photographs
Scope and Contents
From Box 4, F4 (Correspondence - Healey, Frances).
box 207, folder 3
A.A.U.W. Award to Hoffman for "Woman of the Year,"
1957
Scope and Contents
From Box 194*, F1.
Scope and Contents
Acetate negative.
box 207, folder 4
Koday Steeley negative for Joslin Project
Scope and Contents
From Box 20, F6.
box 207, folder 5
Joslin Project
Scope and Contents
From Box 20, F7.
Scope and Contents
Acetate negative.
box 207, folder 6
Kimber Farms
Scope and Contents
From Box 23, F4.
Scope and Contents
Kodak negative.
box 207, folder 7
Rudier's Foundry
Scope and Contents note
From Box 35, f3.
Scope and Contents
Twostrips of Kodak film and two acetate negatives.
box 208
Vol. I, World Trip
Scope and Contents
Three acetate negatives from Box 116, Item #2.
box 208
Three acetate negatives
Scope and Contents
From Box 115.
box 208
Acetate negative
Scope and Contents
From Box 125, F1.
box 208
Javanese Male Dancer
Scope and Contents
Acetate negative from Box 114, F2.
box 209
"Acetate negatives of Small Pictures of Hall of Man bronzes, Field Museum - Work by Malvina Hoffman"
Container Summary: circa 35 negatives
Scope and Contents note
From Box 118, F2.
Nitrate negatives,
undated
Nitrate negatives (digitized version)
Scope and Contents
1,587 nitrate negatives (quarantined), and five microfilm reels of the nitrate negatives. An inventory of the nitrate negatives
is in the Special Collections Research Files. The nitrage negatives have been digitized and are available online. Physical
access to nitrate material is restricted.
box V5
Nitrate negatives
Scope and Contents note
The 1,587 nitrate negatives are restricted. See Box 206 for microfilm reels of these images. See Box 107A, Folder 6 for Hoffman's
inventory of these images. An inventory made by the repository is in the Special Collections Research Files.
box 206, item R1-R5
Microfilm reels of nitrate negatives
Scope and Contents note
5 microfilm reels of 5.
For Hoffman's inventory of the images on the microfilm reels see Box 107A, Folder 6. An inventory made by the repository is
in the Special Collections Research Files.
Lantern Slides: Yugoslavian War Relief,
1918-1919, undated
Yugoslavia lecture,
circa 1918-1919
box 120, folder 2
Captions,
1919
Container Summary: circa 10 items
box 120, folder 3
Drawings by Hoffman,
1919
Container Summary: circa 10 items
box 120, folder 4
Images of war and relief effort in Yugoslavia,
circa 1918
Container Summary: circa 10 items
box 120, folder 5-7
"Views in Balkans,"
circa 1919
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 120, folder 8
Maps of Serbia,
1918
Container Summary: 4 items
box 120, folder 9
World trip and Meštrović portrait,
undated
Container Summary: circa 10 items
box 120, folder 10
Lecture on Yugoslavia,
circa 1919
Container Summary: circa 10 items
Scope and Contents note
With list of slides.
box 120, folder 11
Images of war and relief in Yugoslavia,
circa 1919
Container Summary: circa 10 items
box 128A
Yugoslavia,
undated
Scope and Contents note
Twenty-nine images, seven of which are of drawings by Hoffman of people.
box 128B
Ballet, busts
Container Summary: 35 images
Scope and Contents note
Thirty-three images of a ballet (
L'Après-midi d'un faune?); one bust of Paderewski; one bust of a man, and an image labeled "Straits Settlements Malay, Sakai Jungle Tribe" from the
Chicago Field Museum.
box 128C
Gardens
Container Summary: 32 images
Scope and Contents note
Views of gardens and garden sculptures in Italy, England, the United States, France, India, and Cambodia.
box 128D
Hoffman sculptures
Container Summary: 22 images
Scope and Contents note
Two images of Colonel Milan Pribrićenvić; eight of the Bush House sculpture group; eight of the
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; four unidentified.
Copper plates of photographs,
undated
Scope and Contents
Titles are transcribed from the piece or its wrapper.
box 129
Plate 1: "M. Hoffman's signature"
box 129
Plate 2: "Photo of M. Hoffman"
box 129
Plate 3: "William Adams Delano"
box 129
Plate 4: "Ivan Meštrović (drawing)"
box 129
Plate 5: "Marble Portrait of Thoreau"
box 129
Plate 6: "Daboa" (Hall of Man)
box 129
Plate 7: "Sir Raina Krishna (in alabaster)"
box 129
Plate 8: "Père Limet (drawing)"
box 129
Plate 9: "Marble Portrait of Keats"
box 129
Plate 10: "Mongolian Archer (Hall of Man)"
box 129
Plate 11: "Portuguese Rider of Lipizzian Horse (1955)"
box 130
Plate 1: "Ivan Meštrović - heroic (1/2 figure)"
box 130
Plate 2: "Bali Dancer with Fan (Hall of Man)"
box 130
Plate 3: "Pièrre Leconte du Moñy"
box 130
Plate 4: "Rickshaw Driver (Hall of Man)"
box 130
Plate 5: "Japanese Lady (Hall of Man)"
box 130
Plate 6: "Senegalese Male - Heroic Head (Hall of Man)"
box 130
Plate 7: "Female Javanese Dancer - Heroic Head (Hall of Man)"
box 130
Plate 8: "Hands, Vita Nuova"
box 130
Plate 9: "Daboa (Hall of Man)"
box 130
Plate 10: "Jaipur Lady (Hall of Man)"
box 130
Plate 11: "Daboa (Hall of Man)"
box 130
Plate 12: "Bullfight series: Mulka - 'Natural'"
box 130
Plate 13: "Mongolian Archer (Hall of Man)"
box 130
Plate 14: "Pièrre Teilhard de Chardin"
box 130
Plate 15: "Bullfight series"
box 130
Plate 16: "Bullfight series: Matador, 'Veronica'"
box 130
Plate 17: "Bacchanale Frieze"
box 130
Plate 18: "Bali Woman (Hall of Man)"
box 130
Plate 19: "Dutch East Indies Group (Hall of Man)"
box 130
Plate 20: "Bullfight series: 'Picador'"
box 131
Plate 1: "Senegalese Heroic Head (Hall of Man)"
box 131
Plate 3: "Samoan Male (Hall of Man)"
box 131
Plate 4: "Hamite (Hall of Man)"
box 131
Plate 5: "M. Hoffman with Kiki in Paris Garden"
box 131
Plate 6: "Male Javanese Dancer (Hall of Man)"
box 131
Plate 8-9: "Corner Design Woodcut for Grand Central Gallery Catalogue, 1929,"
Container Summary: 2 pieces
box 131
Plate 10-13: "Bacchanale Frieze"
Container Summary: 4 plates
box 131
Plate 14: "Tam-Tam - African Drummer (Hall of Man)"
box 131
Plate 15: "Shilluk Warrior"
box 132
Plate 1: "Père Limet (drawing)"
box 132
Plate 2: "Horse's Head for Gate Post"
box 132
Plate 3: "Mask of African Slave"
Scope and Contents
Mask of an enslaved African.
box 132
Plate 4: "Martinique Woman (Hall of Man)"
box 132
Plate 6: "Samoan-Polynesian Man Bust (Hall of Man)"
box 132
Plate 7: "Marble Portrait of John Keats Bust"
box 132
Plate 8: "Cantonese Woman (Hall of Man)"
box 132
Plate 9: "
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (frieze)"
box 132
Plate 10: "Ivan Meštrović (1/2 of heroic size figure)"
box 132
Plate 11: "Daboa (Hall of Man)"
box 132
Plate 12: "Kashmiri in Meditation"
box 132
Plate 13: "Cantonese Woman, Mud Carrier (Hall of Man)"
box 132
Plate 14: "Kalahari Bushwoman and Baby (Hall of Man)"
box 132
Plate 15: "Bacchanale (Pavlova and Mordkin) - Art Deco Design" (plate for lithograph)
Audiovisual materials, Series VI.
circa 1924-1961, undated
Selected motion picture films and negatives (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description:
19 box(es)
Scope and Contents note
The films in Series VI depict events from Hoffman's trip around the world for the Field Museum commission, including documentation
of dancers and dancing; Hoffman and friends; and artists at work. Several of the shorter films repeat or are compilations
of footage from longer films. Most of the films were likely made by Hoffman and/or Grimson. Two films are by Thomas Craven
(
Rodin,
Composers in Clay) and others are by J. J. Cummingham (
Meštrović). A few films are copies of news reels by Pathé News (
An Unfinished Symphony in Stone;
Our World in Review: Art) and Movietone News, ([Cuban Voodoo Dance at Dance International]). Other films were made by the British Film Institute;
Doris Plaister; Mr. H. Griaule, Chief of the Dakar Djibouti Mission; and the Republican National Committee.
Included in the series are original 16mm films, either acetate positives or negatives, as well as the archival masters and
copy masters made by the repository for most of the original films. Additonally an incomplete set of use copies on VHS videocassettes
represent the repository's first reformatting efforts for selected films.
Also included in the series are two sound cassettes that feature Malvina Hoffman. Cassette C1 contains a 1961 interview with
Hoffman regarding the
Races of Mankind for the Hall of Man project at the Field Museum, and Hoffman reading a radio address from June 7, 1933 on the occasion of
the opening of the
Races of Mankind. Cassette C2 is a copy of the 1961 interview.
Arrangement
Arranged by material type.
Original film reels,
1925-1939, undated
Scope and Contents note
57 films. The series holds original 16mm films, either acetate positives or negatives (as well as a few nitrate films), as
well as the archival masters and copy masters made by the repository for most of the original films. Use copies on VHS videocassettes
form part of Series VI, and represent the repository's first reformatting efforts for the films.
Most of the films were digitized by the repository in about 2004. The films that have not been digitized are: F10; F12; F14;
F31; F34; F35A; F42; F45; F51. Videotape use copies are available for films 42 and 51. Unreformatted films are not available
for use.
The films depict events from Hoffman's trip around the world for the Field Museum commission, including documentation of dancers
and dancing; Hoffman and friends; and artists at work. Several of the shorter films repeat or are compilations of footage
from longer films.
Most of the films were likely made by Hoffman and/or Grimson. Two films are by Thomas Craven (
Rodin,
Composers in Clay) and others are by J J. Cummingham (
Meštrović). Afew films are copies news reels by Pathé News (
An Unfinished Symphony in Stone;
Our World in Review: Art) and Movietone News, ([Cuban Voodoo Dance at Dance international]). Other films were made by the British Film Institute;
Doris Plaister; Mr. H. Griaule, Chief of the Dakar Djibouti Mission; and the Republican National Committee.
Film titles are derived from several sources: titles on the films, usually the beginning titles; labels on the original film
cans and boxes; a 1939 inventory in the collection, presumably made by Malvina Hoffman (Box 36, Folder 3); and an inventory
made in 2004 by Getty Research Library staff who viewed most of the films after they were digitized.
F1: Dances of India by Nyota Inoka
1937
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (6:28 min., 244 ft.) : sd., titles, b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film. Label on can: New sound print. The dances Inyoka performs are titled in the film "'Vishnu' Evocation of Brahmin
India" and "Parvati Wife of Shiva the God of Dance." Film by Fred Hotchkiss (?).
Reformatted and digitized.
F2: Duk-Duk Dancers of New Guinea,
circa 1930s
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (12:15 min., 439 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm., acetate pos.
Title from film. Film made by British Film Institute. The Duk-Duk is a secret society of the Tolai people of the Rabaul area
of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
Reformatted and digitized.
F3: India,
1930
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (7.23 min., 274 ft.) : si., titles, b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film. Titles of film sections: "Santi and Srimati Dancing a Classical Indian Dance at Rabindranath, Tagore's University
at Santiniketan. They Are Said to be Some of the Best Dancers;" "Andaman Islands"; Queen Islone and Some of Her Family;" "Racing
Canoes," "Onges Fishing over a Coral Reef;" "Onges from Little Andaman," "Shooting with the Adaman Bow," and "Hollowing out
a Canoe."
Reformatted and digitized.
F4: English Folk Dancing: A Film of the Survival and Revival of English Folk Dancing,
circa 1939
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (12:08 min., 437 ft.) : si., titles, b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Photographed and compiled by Doris Plaister. Title from film. Details the history of Cecil Sharp and the foundation of the
English Folk Dancing Society. Features Morris dancers and English country dancers. Dances include the Baccha Pipes Jig, the
Broom Dance, the Long and Short Sword dances, the Royton (a Morris dance), and the Kentuck Running Set.
Reformated and digitized.
F5: Funeral Dance in the French Soudan,
circa 1930
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (13:32 min., 400 ft.) : si., titles, b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Presented by Mr. H. Griaule, Chief of the Dakar Djibouti Mission. Organized by the French Minister of Education. Printed by
G. M. Film, France.
French Sudan, now known as Mali.
F5 contains the content found on F6A and F6B.
Reformatted and digitized.
F6A and F6B: Funeral Dance in the French Soudan,
1931 March 31
Scope and Contents note
F6A: 1 film reel (11.58 min., 448 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos. Without titles, labeled Part I.
F6B: 1 film reel (93 ft.) : si., b&w; 16 mm. acetate pos. Subtitles only, labeled Part II.
F6A and F6B are combined on F5. French Soudan, now known as Mali.
F7: India,
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (8.58 min., 335 ft.) : si., titles, b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film. Dancing around the world, Part IV. Includes two Nautch girls (court dancers); the troupe of the Maharajah
of Jaipur; a male dancer of Jaipur; and a troupe of Bhats dancing at Madras.
Reformatted and digitized.
F8: Ceylon: A Troupe of Cinhalese at Kandy Dancing Native Dances, Concluding with the Cinhalese Devil-Dance,
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (7:10 min., 268 ft.) : si., titles, b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film. Dancing around the world Part V. Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka perform the Akkum or Devil Dance. Hoffamn
encounters an elephant.
Reformatted and digitized.
F9: [Java],
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (9:29 min., 352 ft.) : si., titles, b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Students receive instruction in dance at a "wayside dancing school" and various dancers perform dances about princes and
heroes. Dancing of the World, Part II.
Reformatted and digitized.
F10: [Java],
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (9:29 min., 400 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. neg.
Content duplicates F9.
F11: Burma,
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (9 min., 329 ft.) : si., titles, b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film (Burma is now known as Myranmar). Features Ma Kin Kye a boy dancer aged 11 years. Burmese delegate to the
Round Table Conference, London, Aung Thin shakes hands with Hoffman. Dancing around the world Part III.
Reformatted and digitized.
F12: Burma,
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (8:48 min., 216 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. neg.
Title from film (Burma is now known as Myranmar). Content duplicates F11.
F13: Bali,
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (6:42 min., 325 ft.) : si., titles, b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film. Dancing at a temple near Den Pasar. A gamelon orchestra, the Balinese Bow Dance, and Njoman Kaler, a male
dancer, are featured. Dancing around the world Part I.
Reformatted and digitized.
F14: Bali,
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (6:42 min., 400 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate neg. Content duplicates F13.
F15: [Villa Chauvelot],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (9:47 min., 347 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Hoffman in the garden at Villa Chauvelot with various groups of family and friends (her sister Helen Draper, Marie-Louise
Emmet, Sam Grimson, and Lemordant), a rooster, and Kiki, her cat. Also included is footage of a sailboat named "Malvina."
Reformatted and digitized.
F16: [Model of Hoffman's Reredos for a San Francisco Church],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (2.46 min., 106 ft.) : si., b&w and col.; 16mm. acetate pos.
A black-and-white still shot of a group of prisioners of war is followed by color still shots of a church interior.
Reformatted and digitized.
F17: 4 Horsemen,
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (2:02 min., 102 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film box. Handwritten on film box: 4 horsemen; raising angel to top; Rita Lydig posing; M. L. Emmet. the film shows
assistants in the studio working on sculptures; Hoffman is also present.
Reformatted and digitized.
F18: [Two Asian Men],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (17 sec., 40 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Still shot of two Asian men in business suits.
Reformatted and digitized.
F19: [Hoffman and Kiki],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (31 sec., 48 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Hoffman and her cat Kiki in the garden at Villa Cahuvelot and with friends; a river scene.
Reformatted and digitized.
F20: ["Musicians" at a Garden Party],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (2:48 min, 130 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Label on film box: Celigny; Eames; Marlow Schelling; Monaco; Vallscure; Ethel & Bill; Hale; etc. Shows capers at a garden
party; Hoffman filmimg; river scenes; and touring in woods.
Reformatted and digitized.
F21: Malvina Hoffman, N.A.,
1936
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (2:52 min., 133 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film. Hoffman sculpting in her studio; discusssing various busts for the
Races of Mankind; with the Yale Taskin harspsicord discovered by Grimson; drinking and smoking with Grimson.
Reformatted and digitized.
F22: [Dancers of the World],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (47 sec., 52 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Shots of costumed dancers shown one at a time. Most of the dancers are seen in F30.
Reformatted and digitized.
F23: [Ivan Meštrović's Sculptures of Native Americans I],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (21 sec., 42 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. nitrate pos. Wound on core with films F24, F25.
Footage of Ivan Meštrović's sculptures of Native Americans in Grant Park, Chicago.
Reformatted and digitized.
F24: [Ivan Meštrović's Sculptures of Native Americans II],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (40 sec., 54 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. nitrate pos. Wound on core with films F23, F25.
Footage of Ivan Meštrović's sculptures of Native Americans in Grant Park, Chicago.
Reformatted and digitized.
F25: [Plaster Cast],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (15 sec., 38 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos. Wound on core with films F23, F24.
Shows a sculptor working on a plaster cast; seemingly refers to Meštrović's sculptures of Native Americans.
Reformatted and digitized.
F26: [Hoffman with Padaung Women from Myanmar],
circa 1931
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (56 sec., 64 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Hoffman (holding Kiki) on the street with Padaung women, possibly at the 1931 Expostion Coloniale.
Reformatted and digitized.
F27: [Arbor House; Oxenon Beach (?); San Sebastian],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (135 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Views of a house; men constructing a walkway on a beach with oxen dragging timbers.
Reformatted and digitized.
F28: [Yellow Temple, China (?)],
circa 1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (154 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Note on film box: Poor.
Reformatted and digitized.
F29: [Palio],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (130 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Medieval reinactment (?)
Reformatted and digitized.
F30: [Various Dances],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (4:09 min., 153 ft.) : si., col.; 16mm. acetate pos.
Dancers perform in four different settings.
Reformatted and digitized.
F31: [Excerpts of Persian Dancers, Nyota Inoka],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (4:08 min., 180 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Short pieces, not edited, slow motion track.
F32: [Hawaii and the Philippines],
circa 1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (12:33 min., 482 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Hawaiians dance the hula; surfing; other daily activities; a Cañao at Bontoc with dancing; an American school.
Reformatted and digitized.
F33: Thomas Craven,
Rodin,
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (23:53 min., 876 ft.) : sd., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film. Biographical film about Rodin for which Hoffman served as art consultant.
Reformatted and digitized.
F34:
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races),
1939
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (641 ft.) : 16mm.
F35A:
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races),
1939
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (799 ft.) : 16mm.
F35B: Thomas Craven,
Composers in Clay,
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (17:58 min., 704 ft.) : sd., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film. The film details the work processes and styles of French sculptors Lucien Schnegg, Bourdelle, Wlérick, Belmondo,
Yencesse, Niclausse, Gaumont, Poisson, Cornet, Dejean, R. La Mourdedieu, Collamarin, and Martin. Hoffman acted as art consultant.
Reformatted and digitized.
F36: [Persian and Hindu Dances],
1937
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (17:38 min., 680 ft.) : sd., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Nahide and Medjid Rezrani perform a lovers' dance; a dance to worship the Sacred Goat; and classical dances from fifteenth
and sixteenth century Persia. Nyota Inyoka performs dances of India. Original film made in Paris for Dance International.
Slow motion track. Resurfaced by DeLuxe Labs, 1937.
Reformatted and digitized.
F37: [Villa Chauvelot; Hartsdale Garden; Arbor House; Ethel and Bill; San Sabastian],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (1:31 min., 115 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Reformatted and digitized.
F38: [Santa Barbara; Jim and Chas. Kline; Mitchell Ranch; Carriages],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (3:23 min., 184 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Reformatted and digitized.
F39: [New York World's Fair, Hildreth Meiere Murals],
1939
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (2:30 min, 160 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Label on film can: Picture taken by M. Hoffman.
Shows construction of Hoffman's
Dance International Fountain (Dances of the Races) and construction around in Perylon Circle and Perylon Hall for the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Reformatted and digitized.
F40: [Horse Show, Mt. Kisco],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (2:20 min., 145 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Reformatted and digitized.
F41:
Ivan Meštrović's Indians,
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel [of 2?] (14:20 min., 366 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate neg.
Title from film. Footage (with titles) documents Ivan Meštrović's process while working on his statues of Native Americans
for Chicago's Grant Park.
Label on film can: Wuta Sculpture, Con. Lab; Ivan Meštrović's Indians. Reel 1.
Reformatted and digitized.
F42:
Ivan Meštrović's Indians,
undated
Scope and Contents note
2nd film reel [of 2?] (14:20 min., 255 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate neg.
Title from film. Label on film can: Wuta Sculpture, Con. Lab; Ivan Meštrović's Indians. Reel 2. Documents Ivan Meštrović's
process while working on his statues of Native Americans for Chicago's Grant Park. Contents duplicate F41.
Reformatted.
F43: [Detroit, Kalamazoo],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (2:26 min., 198 ft.) : b&w and col.; 16mm. acetate pos.
Contains exterior and interior footage of Evans Products Co., Detroit Michigan and other locations.
Label on can: Portrait Kalamazoo!
Reformatted and digitized.
F44: [Amer Fort, Jaipur],
circa 1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (9:24 min., 368 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Includes footage of Amer Fort; Hoffman riding on a elephant; and acrobats and sword dancers. Dancing around the world Part
XI.
Reformatted and digitized.
F45: [Amer Fort, Jaipur],
circa 1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (9:24 min., 368 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Includes footage of Amer Fort; Hoffman riding on a elephant; and acrobats and sword dancers. Dancing around the world Part
XI. Content duplicates F44.
Reformatted and digitized.
F46: [Extra films: Philippines, Japan, India],
1926-1928
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (6:16 min., 255 ft.) : b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Compilation of footage including the Philippines and India.Hoffman and Grimson are present in a few shots.
Reformatted and digitized.
F47: J. J. Cunningham, [Meštrović "Best"],
1939?
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel of 2? (5.57 min., 230 ft.) : si., col.; 16mm. acetate pos.
Men, women, and children take a tour of an exhibition of Ivan Meštrović's work; children draw pictures of his sculptures.
Close-ups of Meštrović's work. Same as, but "better" version of F48 (?) according to inventory in Box 36, Folder 3. Noted
on 1939 inventory as: Meštrović and his Indians - Best (i.e. his sculptures of Native Americans for Chicago's Grant Park).
Reformatted and digitized.
F48: J. J. Cunningham, [Meštrović],
1939?
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel of 2? (5:55 min., 230 ft.) : si., col.; 16mm. acetate pos.
Likely a continuation of film F47. Noted on 1939 inventory as: Meštrović and his Indians (i.e. his sculptures of Native Americans
for Chicago's Grant Park.)
Reformatted and digitized.
F49: Malvina Hoffman,
Anglo-American Friendship: Pictorial History of Sculpture Group on Bush House, London,
1925
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (8 min., 218 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film.
Reformatted and digitized.
F50: Pathé News,
An Unfinished Symphony in Stone,
before 1934
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (3:41 min., 121 ft.) : sd., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film. English sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger working on his sculpture of King George V. The title refers to the
fact that in the process of making the sculpture Jagger died suddenly of pneumonia and the longer documentary Pathé was in
the process of filming was made into a filmic obituary. The sculpture was completed by William Reid Dick.
Reformatted and digitized.
F51: Meštrović - Making Indians, Zagreb,
1939
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (15:12 min., 523 ft.) : si., titles, b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film (?). Meštrović in Zagreb working on sculptures of American Indians for Grant Park, Chicago.
Reformatted. See Series 7 for videotape use copy.
F52: Republican National Committee,
Questions and Answers with Wendell Wilkie,
circa 1940
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (11:58 min., 427 ft.) : sd., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film. Wendell Wilkie explains why he thinks he should be president and offers his opinion on the topics of unemployment,
the New Deal, farm labor, war, and national defense.
Reformatted and digitized.
F53: [Thomas J. Watson],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (10:08 min., 382 ft.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Thomas J. Watson, chairman and CEO of IBM speaking on two different occasions.
Reformatted and digitized.
F54: Louise Branch,
New Hampshire Sketches,
circa 1939
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (10:25 min.) : sd., col.; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film. Hoffman painted the title and endpiece.
Reformatted and digitized.
F55: [Bronze Pouring],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (7:06 min.) : si., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
A sculpture is cast in bronze.
Reformatted and digitized.
F56: Pathé News,
Our World in Review: Art,
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (9:48 min.) : sd., b&w; 16mm. acetate pos.
Title from film. Short profiles of artists Meštrović, James Montgomery Flagg, and W. T. Benda. Flagg and Benda speak about
their work. Label on film can: Meštrović.
Reformatted and digitized.
Archival and copy masters
1924-1939
F1: Dances of India by Nyota Inoka
1937
box 195, item F1
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (6:28 min.): sd., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 196, item F1
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (6:28 min.): sd., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F2: Duk-Duk Dancers of New Guinea,
circa 1930s
box 195, item F2
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (12:15 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 196, item F2
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (12:15 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
box 195, item F3
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (7 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 196, item F3
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (7 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F4: English Folk Dancing: A Film of the Survival and Revival of English Folk Dancing,
circa 1939
box 195, item F4
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (12:10 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 196, item F4
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (12:10 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F5: Funeral Dance in the French Soudan,
circa 1930
box 195, item F5
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (13:36 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 196, item F5
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (13:36 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F6: Funeral Dance in the French Soudan, Part II [?]
circa 1930
box 195, item F6
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (14:20 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
Combines originals 6A and 6B.
box 196, item F6
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (14:20 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
Combines originals 6A and 6B.
box 197, item F7
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (8:42 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 198, item F7
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (8:42 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F8: Ceylon: A Troupe of Cinhalese at Kandy Dancing Native Dances, Concluding with the Cinhalese Devil-Dance,
1930/1931
box 197, item F8
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (6:44 min.): si., titles, b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 198, item F8
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (6:44 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
box 197, item F9
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (9:29 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 198, item F9
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (9:29 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F11: Burma,
1930-1931
Scope and Contents
I.e. Myranmar.
box 197, item F11
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (8:48 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 198, item F11
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (8:48 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
box 197, item F13
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (6:50 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 198, item F13
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (6:50 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F15: [Villa Chauvelot],
undated
box 197, item F15
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (9:47 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 198, item F15
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (9:47 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F16: Model of Hoffman's Reredos for a San Francisco Church,
undated
box 199, item F16
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (3:57 min.): si., b&w. and col.; 16mm. master neg.
box 200, item F16
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (3:57 min.): si., b&w. and col.; 16mm. master pos.
F22: [Dancers of the World]
undated
box 199, item F22
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel : si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 200, item F22
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel : si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F30: [Dancers of the World],
circa 1930-1931
box 199, item F30
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (12 min.): si., col.; 16mm. master neg.
box 200, item F30
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (12 min.): si., col.; 16mm. master pos.
F32: [Hawaii, the Philippines],
circa 1930-1931
box 199, item F32
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (17:50 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 200, item F32
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (17:50 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F33: Thomas Craven,
Rodin,
undated
box 199, item F33
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel : sd., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 200, item F33
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel : sd., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F35B: Thomas Craven,
Composers in Clay,
undated
box 199, item F35B
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (18:14 min.): sd., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 200, item F35B
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (18:14 min.): sd., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F36: [Persian and Hindu Dances],
1937
box 201, item F36
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (18 min.): sd., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 202, item F36
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (18 min.): sd., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F37: [Villa Chauvelot; Hartsdale garden; Arbor House; Ethel and Bill; San Sebastian],
undated
box 201, item F37
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (3 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 202, item F37
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel : si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F38: [Santa Barbara; Jim and Chas. Kline; Mitchell Ranch; Carriages],
undated
box 201, item F38
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (5 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 202, item F38
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel : si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F39: [New York World's fair, Hildreth Meiere Murals],
1939
box 201, item F39
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (5 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 202, item F39
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel : si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F40: [Horse Show, Mt. Kisco],
undated
box 201, item F40
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (4 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 202, item F40
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel : si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F41:
Ivan Meštrović's Indians,
undated
box 201, item F41
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel of 2? (15:06 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 202, item F41
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel of 2? (15:06 min.) : si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
See film F42.
F42:
Ivan Meštrović's Indians,
undated
box 201, item F42
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel of 2? (15:07 min.) : si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
See film F41.
box 202, item F42
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel of 2? (15:07 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
See film F41.
F44: [Amer Fort, Jaipur],
1930-1931
box 201, item F44
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (15 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master neg.
box 202, item F44
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (15 min.): si., b&w.; 16mm. master pos.
F47: J. J. Cunningham, [Meštrović ("Best")],
1939?
box 201, item F47
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel of 2? (6 min.): si., col.; 16mm. master neg.
box 202, item F47
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel of 2? (6 min.): si., col.; 16mm. master pos.
See film F48.
F48: J. J. Cunningham, [Meštrović],
1939?
box 201, item F48
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel of 2? (6 min.): si., col.; 16mm. master neg.
box 202, item F48
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel of 2? (6 min.): si., col.; 16mm. master pos.
See film F47.
box 204, item F48
F48: J. J. Cunningham, Meštrović,
1939?
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel of 2? (6 min.): si., col.; 16mm. master pos.
See film F47.
F50: Pathé News,
An Unfinished Symphony in Stone,
before 1934
box 203, item F50
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (3:38 min.): sd., b&w; 16mm. master neg.
box 204, item 50
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (3:48 min.): sd., b&w; 16mm. master pos.
F51: Meštrović - Making Indians, Zagreb,
1939
box 203, item F51
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (15:12 min.): si., b&w; 16mm. master neg.
box 204, item F51
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (15:12 min.): si., b&w; 16mm. master pos.
F52: Republican National Committee,
Questions and Answers with Wendell Wilkie,
undated
box 203, item F52
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (4 min.): sd., b&w; 16mm. master neg.
box 204, item 52
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (4 min.): sd., b&w; 16mm. master pos.
F53: [Thomas J. Watson],
undated
box 203, item F53
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (10:11 min.): si., b&w; 16mm. master neg.
box 204, item F53
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (10:11 min.): si., b&w; 16mm. master pos.
F55: Bronze Pouring,
undated
box 203, item F55
Copy master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (7:08 min.): si., b&w; 16mm. master neg.
box 204, item F55
Archival master
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (7:08 min.): si., b&w; 16mm. master pos.
box 203, item F56
F56: Pathé News,
Our World in Review: Art,
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 film reel (10:12 min.): sd., b&w; 16mm. master neg.
box 205, item F56
F56: Pathé News,
Our World in Review: Art,
undated
Scope and Contents note
Archival and copy master. 1 film reel (10:12 min.): sd., b&w; 16mm. master pos.
box 205, item F57
F57: Hartsdale,,
1924
Scope and Contents note
Archival and copy master. 1 film reel (3:24 min.): si., b&w; 16mm. master neg.
box 205, item F57
F57: Hartsdale, N.Y.,
1924
Scope and Contents note
Archival and copy master. 1 film reel (3:24): si., b&w; 16mm. master pos.
Videotapes,
1924-1939, undated
Selected video recordings: 1964-1993
Physical Description:
29 videocassettes
Scope and Contents
Comprises VHS use copies that were the inital refomated versions of selected 16mm film originals held in the collection. Approximately
12 films document dance around the world for Hoffman's Field Museum commission. Eight films document artists and art techniques.
Among these are a biography of Auguste Rodin by Thomas Craven and several films of Ivan Meštrović at work by J. J. Cunningham.
Approximately seven films are of Hoffman, her work, friends, and travels.
Descriptions are taken from several sources: labels on the original film cans and boxes; a 1939 inventory in the collection
presumably made by Malvina Hoffman (Box 36, Folder 3); and an inventory made by Getty Research Library staff who viewed most
of the films.
Most of the original films were digitized by the repository in 2004. The scope notes for the original films indicate their
digitization status.
reel F1
Dances of India by Nyota Inoka,
1937
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (6:28 min.) : sd., titles, b&w ; use copy.
Title from film. The dances Inyoka performs are titled in the film "'Vishnu' Evocation of Brahmin India" and "Parvatii Wife
of Shiva the God of Dance." Film by Fred Hotchkiss (?).
reel F2
Duk-Duk Dancers of New Guinea,
circa 1930s
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (12:15 min.) : si., b&w ; use copy.
Title from film. Film made by British Film Institute. The Duk-Duk is a secret society of the Tolai people of the Rabaul area
of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
reel F3
India,
1930
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (7 min.) : si., titles, b&w ; use copy.
Title from film. Titles of film sections: "Santi and Srimati Dancing a Classical Indian Dance at Rabindranath, Tagore's University
at Santiniketan. They Are Said to be Some of the Best Dancers;" "Andaman Islands"; Queen Islone and Some of Her Family;" "Racing
Canoes," "Onges Fishing over a Coral Reef;" "Onges from Little Andaman," "Shooting with the Adaman Bow," and "Hollowing out
a Canoe."
reel F4
English Folk Dancing: A Film of the Survival and Revival of English Folk Dancing,
circa 1939
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (12:10 min.) : si., titles, b&w ; use copy.
Photographed and compiled by Doris Plaister. Title from film. Details the history of Cecil Sharp and the foundation of the
English Folk Dancing Society. Features Morris dancers and English country dancers. Dances include the Baccha Pipes Jig, the
Broom Dance, the Long and Short Sword dances, the Royton (a Morris dance), and the Kentuck Running Set.
reel F5
Funeral Dance in the French Soudan,
circa 1930
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (13:32 min.) : si., titles, b&w ; use copy.
Presented by Mr. H. Griaule, Chief of the Dakar Djibouti Mission. Organized by the French Minister of Education. Printed by
G. M. Film, France.
French Sudan, now known as Mali.
reel F6
Funeral Dance in the French Soudan, Part II [?]
circa 1930
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (14.20 min.) : si., b&w : use copy.
See F5. Reformatted from films 6A and 6B. French Soudan, now known as Mali.
reel F7
India,
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (8:42 min.) : si., titles, b&w ; use copy.
Title from film. Dancing around the world, Part IV [?] Includes two Nautch girls (court dancers); the troupe of the Maharajah
of Jaipur; a male dancer, Jaipur; a troupe of Bhats dancing at Madras.
reel F8
Ceylon: A Troupe of Cinhalese Kandy at Dancing Native Dances, Concluding with the Cinhalese Devil-Dance,
circa 1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (6:44 min.) : si., titles, b&w ; use copy.
Title from film. Dancing around the world Part V. Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka performa the Akkum or Devil Dance. Hoffamn
encounters an elephant.
reel F9
[Java],
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (9:29 min.) : si., titles, b&w ; use copy.
Students receive instruction in dance at a "wayside dancing school" and various dancers perform dances about princes and
heroes. Dancing of the World, Part II.
reel F11
Burma,
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (8:48 min.) : si., titles, b&w ; use copy.
Title from film (Burma is now known as Myranmar). Features Ma Kin Kye a boy dancer aged 11 years. Burmese delegate to the
Round Table Conference, London, Aung Thin shakes hands with Hoffman. Dancing around the world Part III.
reel F13
Bali,
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (6:50 min.) : si., titles, b&w ; use copy.
Title from film. Dancing at a temple near Den Pasar. A gamelon orchestra, the Balinese Bow Dance, and Njoman Kaler, a male
dancer, are featured. Dancing around the world Part I.
reel F15
[Villa Chauvelot],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (9:37 min.) : si., b&w ; use copy.
Hoffman in the garden at Villa Chauvelot with various groups of family and friends (her sister Helen Draper, Marie-Louise
Emmet, and Sam Grimson, and Lemordant), a rooster, and Kiki, her cat. Also included is footage of a sailboat named "Malvina."
reel F16
[Model of Hoffman's Reredos for a San Francisco Church],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (3:57 min.) : si., b&w, col. ; use copy.
A black-and-white still shot of a group of prisioners of war is followed by color still shots of a church interior.
reel F30
[Various Dances],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (12 min.) : si., col. ; use copy.
Dancers perform in four different settings.
reel F33
Thomas Craven,
Rodin,
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) : sd., b&w ; use copy.
Title from film. Biographical film about Rodin for which Hoffman served as art consultant.
reel F35B
Thomas Craven,
Composers in Clay,
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (18:14 min.) : sd., b&w ; use copy.
Title from film. The film details the work processes and styles of French sculptors Lucien Schnegg, Bourdelle, Wlérick, Belmondo,
Yencesse, Niclausse, Gaumont, Poisson, Cornet, Dejean, R. La Mourdedieu, Collamarin, and Martin. Malvina Hoffman acted as
art consultant.
reel F36
[Persian and Hindu Dances],
1937
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (18 min.) : sd., titles, b&w ; use copy, + copy 2.
Nahide and Medjid Rezrani perform a lovers' dance; a dance to worship the Sacred Goat; and classical dances from fifteenth
and sixteenth century Persia. Nyota Inyoka performs dances of India. Original film made in Paris for Dance International.
Slow motion track. Resurfaced by DeLuxe Labs, 1937.
(VHS copy 2, originally mis-labelled as F32.)
reel F37-40
Compilation of four films.
1931, 1939, undated
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (11:05 min.) : si., b&w ; use copy.
Contains the following films:
F37: [Villa Chauvelot; Hartsdale Garden; Arbor House; Ethel and Bill; San Sebastian], undated
F38: [Santa Barbara; Jim and Chas. Kline; Mitchell Ranch; Carriages], 1931.
F39: [New York World's Fair, Hildreth Meiere Murals], 1939.
F40: [Horse Show, Mt. Kisco], undated
reel F41
Ivan Meštrović's Indians,
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (15:06 min.) : si., titles, b&w ; use copy.
Title from film. Label on film can: Wuta Sculpture, Con. Lab; Ivan Meštrović's Indians. Reel 1. Documents Ivan Meštrović's
process while working on his statues of Native Americans for Chicago's Grant Park.
Label on film can: Wuta Sculpture, Con. Lab; Ivan Meštrović's Indians. Reel 1.
reel F42
Ivan Meštrović's Indians,
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (15:07 min.) : si., b&w ; use copy.
Title from film. Label on film can: Wuta Sculpture, Con. Lab; Ivan Meštrović's Indians. Reel 2.Documents Ivan Meštrović's
process while working on his statues of Native Americans for Chicago's Grant Park. Contents duplicate F41.
reel F47
J. J. Cunningham, [Meštrović "Best"],
1939?
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (6 min.) : si., col. ; use copy.
Men, women, and children take a tour of an exhibition of Ivan Meštrović's work; children draw pictures of his sculptures.
Close-ups of Meštrović's work. Same as, but "better" version of F48 (?) according to inventory in Box 36, Folder 3. Noted
on 1939 inventory as: Meštrović and his Indians - Best (i.e. his sculptures of Native Americans for Chicago's Grant Park).
reel F48
J. J. Cunningham , [Meštrović],
1939?
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (6 min.) : si., col. ; use copy.
Likely a continuation of film F47. Noted on 1939 inventory as: Meštrović and his Indians (i.e. his sculptures of Native Americans
for Chicago's Grant Park.).
reel F50
Pathé News,
An Unfinished Symphony in Stone,
before 1934
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (3:48 min.) : sd., b&w ; use copy.
Title from film. English sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger working on his sculpture of King George V. The title refers to the
fact that in the process of making the sculpture Jagger died suddenly of pneumonia and the longer documentary Pathé was in
the process of filming was made into a filmic obituary. The sculpture was completed by William Reid Dick.
reel F51
Meštrović - Making Indians, Zagreb,
1939
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (15:12 min.) : si., titles, b&w ; use copy.
Title from film (?). Meštrović in Zagreb working on sculptures of Native Americans.
reel F52
Republican National Committee,
Questions and Answers with Wendell Wilkie,
circa 1904
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (4 min.) : sd., b&w ; use copy.
Title from film. Wendell Wilkie explains why he thinks he should be president and offers his opinion on the topics of unemployment,
the New Deal, farm labor, war, and national defense.
reel F53
[Thomas J. Watson],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (10:08 min.) : si., b&w ; use copy.
Thomas J. Watson, chairman and CEO of IBM speaking on two different occasions.
reel F55
[Bronze Pouring],
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (7:08 min.) : si., b&w ; use copy.
A sculpture is cast in bronze.
reel F56
Pathé News,
Our World in Review: Art,
undated
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (10:12 min.) : sd., b&w ; use copy.
Short profiles of artists Meštrović, James Montgomery Flagg, and W. T. Benda. Flagg and Benda speak about their work.
reel F57
Hartsdale,
1924
Scope and Contents note
1 videocassette (VHS) (3:24 min.) : si., b&w ; use copy.
Title from 1939 inventory. Hoffman and Marie-Louise Emmet shake hands. Hoffman and others pick flowers and walk around the
grounds.
box 133, item C1-C2
Sound cassettes,
1961
Physical Description:
2 sound cassette
Scope and Contents note
C1: 1 sound cassette (Maxell) : analog.
Side 1: Interview with Hoffman; Side 2: Hoffman reading a radio address from June 7, 1933 on the occasion of the opening of
the Hall of Man, plus same interview as on Side 1.
C2: 1 sound cassette (TDK) : analog.
Interview with Hoffman regarding the Hall of Man (same as on C1). Side 2: blank.
Travel diaries, postcards, scrapbooks, and memorabilia, Series VII.
1897-1966, undated
Physical Description:
40 box(es)
Scope and Contents note
Series VII contains a variety of materials that Hoffman compiled or collected over her lifetime. Hoffman's travel diaries
contain detailed accounts of the trips she made between 1902 and 1948 and chronicle both her domestic and international travels.
Included are three journals of anthropological notes used for the
Races of Mankind (Hall of Man) commission. A small collection of postcards that Hoffman gathered on her travels, some in albums, depicting
images of art and European cities is present in the series. Thirty-two scrapbooks that Hoffman kept from the time she was
a teenager until the end of her life contain clippings and photographs relating to her work and to art in general. Some of
the scrapbooks are devoted to specific projects or exhibitions, while others are more general in nature. A visitor's book
to Hoffman's studio and exhibitions spans from 1938 to 1961. One box of material holds memorabilia, papers, and assignments
from Hoffman's years at the Brearley School.
Arrangement
Arranged by material type.
Travel diaries,
1902-1948
box 134, folder 1
"Yellowstone National Park,"
1902
Scope and Contents note
With photographs.
box 134, folder 2
"Boar's Head, Dick Davis, Mt. Kisco,"
1909
box 134, folder 3
"First European Trip: N.Y., Azores, Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples, Rome, Como, Florence, Paris (Rodin), London, Keats,"
1910
box 134, folder 4
"Paris, New York, Rodin, S. Grimson,"
1911-1912
Container Summary: circa 11 items inserted
Scope and Contents note
Handmade book of transcribed poems with clippings and photographs.
box 134, folder 5
"Bar Harbor, Paris, New York"
1913-1916
Scope and Contents note
Drawings and photographs of Hoffman, her family, and her work; includes news clippings.
box 135, folder 1
Athens, Kossovo, Mipan, Paris,
1919
Container Summary: circa 20 items
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs and news clippings.
World Trip - Hall of Man,
1928-1931
box 135, folder 2
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
Includes Hall of Man data (with list of plasters).
box 135, folder 3
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
Hall of Man data, kept by Gretchen Green (secretary to Hoffman during the trip).
box 135, folder 4
1928-1931
Scope and Contents note
Hall of Man data, trip to Africa; list of bronzes in Hall of Man.
Postcards and postcard albums,
undated
box 136, folder 1
Races of Mankind
Container Summary: circa 75 items
Scope and Contents note
Loose postcards of the Hall of Man sculptures.
box 136, folder 2
Packet of postcards of Tunis
box 136, folder 3
Postcards of Gabès, Médénine, and Tunis
Container Summary: circa 30 items
Postcard albums,
circa 1919
box 136, folder 4
"Paintings" (various artists)
box 136, folder 5
"Sculpture: Rodin, Houdon, Meunier"
box 136, folder 6
"Genoa; Rome; Pompeii; Florence"
Scope and Contents
Also includes images of New Hampshire and New England.
box 136, folder 7
"Chalons Sur Marne; Compiègne; Battle of Verdun, 1916"
box 136, folder 8
"Paintings (Old Masters); Reims; Fêtes en l'honneur de Jeanne d'Arc (Compiègne, 1911)"
box 136, folder 9
"Paris; Versailles; Pierrefonds; Venice; Macedonia - Salonica (caricatures)"
box 136, folder 10
"Mont St. Michel; Les Andelys; Versailles; Barbizon St. Cloud; Montainbleau; Rouen Peasant Costumes; London"
box 137, folder 1
"Paris et Petit Métiers de Paris"
box 137, folder 2
"France; Holland; Modern Art (Gaston La Touche, etc.)"
box 137, folder 3
"Salonica - Greek Sculptures in Athens; Modern Sculptures in America"
box 137, folder 5
"French Cathedrals and Fountains"
box 137, folder 6
Images of soldiers from Scotland, England and France; La Pompelle and Berry au Bac after World War I; March of Victory,
box 137, folder 7
"Sculpture"
Scope and Contents note
Images of L'Abbaye de Saint-Denis, Indian sculpture [British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum], Italian and French sculpture
[Michelangelo, Donatello] and Egyptian sculpture.
box 137, folder 8
Postcard packet, "Serbian Warriors," by S. Tchernoff
Notebooks and papers from Brearley School,
1899-1915, undated
box 138, folder 1
Midyear exams notebook,
1901
box 138, folder 2
Art notebook,
undated
Scope and Contents note
With mounted illustrations of art work and notes on master artists.
box 138, folder 3
Notebook of assorted assigned papers,
1899-1902
box 138, folder 4
"History of Art" handmade book,
1903
box 138, folder 5
"Poems, Musings, Random Thoughts and Observations,"
undated
Container Summary: circa 40 items, news clippings
box 138, folder 6
"Harper Pennington's words to Hoffman, transcribed by Hoffman,"
1909
box 138, folder 7
"June Night - Musings (in a studio),"
undated
box 138, folder 8
"Odds and Ends,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Notebook with loose papers, news clippings.
box 138, folder 9
"Russian language notebook,"
circa 1915
box 138, folder 10
Sheet Music, "Under the Balcony, Song for a Medium Voice With Piano Accompaniment, by Malvina & Richard Hoffman (based on
poem by Oscar Wilde),"
undated
box 140
Photo Album, "Trip Abroad , Vol. 9"
1910
box 142
Scrapbook, Bush House Project,
1922-1947
box 143
Scrapbook, "Personal Descriptions and Thoughts Regarding Models for Field Works,"
circa 1930-1933
box 144
Visitor's book to Hoffman's studio and exhibitions,
circa 1938-1961
box 145
Scrapbook, "The Civilization of the Mycenae,"
undated
box 146
Scrapbook, "Book of Symbols,"
undated
box 147
Scrapbook
undated
Scope and Contents
With photographs.
Photographs, clippings, "Bullfight Series,"
circa 1952
box 148, folder 1
Photographs and news clippings about bullfights and matadors,
Container Summary: circa 30 items
box 148, folder 1
Postcards, images of bullfights
Container Summary: circa 20 items
Scope and Contents note
Oversize cloth transferred to Box 191*.
Scrapbooks, sketches, correspondence,
1921-1961, undated
box 149, folder 1
Miscellaneous items, photographs, Bush House Project,
1922-1947
Container Summary: 5 items
Scope and Contents
From scrapbook, Box 142.
box 149, folder 2
"Epinal Project,"
circa 1948-1960
Scope and Contents
Small notebook with sketches and notes.
box 149, folder 3
"Opera Stars,"
undated
Scope and Contents
Small notebook.
box 149, folder 4
Items pertaining to Visitor's book,
1938-1961
Container Summary: circa 30 items
Scope and Contents
From Box 144.
box 150, box 151
"Scrapbook: clippings,"
1923-1930
Scope and Contents note
Hoffman's life and work.
box 152
Scrapbook, "Processes of Sculpture"
Scope and Contents note
Photographs for
Sculpture Inside and Out.
box 153
Scrapbook, "World Tour,"
1931 September-1932 March
Scope and Contents note
Races of Mankind (Hall of Man) sculptures.
box 154
"Scrapbook of clippings,"
1931-1937
Scope and Contents note
Work by Hoffman, exhibitions, honorary degrees.
box 155
Scrapbook, "Publicity and Photographs of Traveling Exhibitions,"
1933-1938
box 156
Scrapbook, "Malvina Hoffman's work,"
1937-1942
box 157
Scrapbook, "Publicity for
Heads and Tales and
Sculpture Inside and Out,"
1936-1938
box 158
Scrapbook, "Malvina Hoffman's work,"
1937-1943
box 159
"Scrapbook of Malvina Hoffman's work,"
1944-1966
box 160
Scrapbook, "Dance International,"
1900-1937
box 161
Scrapbook, Postcards of museum pieces,
undated
box 162
Scrapbook, "Miscellaneous clippings,"
1917-1919, 1926, 1931-1941
box 163
"Scrapbook (Dance International, etc.) not of Malvina Hoffman's work," ,
1937-1942
Scope and Contents note
With photograph signed by Helen Keller.
"Scrapbook, not of Malvina Hoffman's work,"
1940-1966
box 171
Album, Exhibition at IBM school 1943,
1943-1947
Scope and Contents note
With correspondence and clippings. Related drawings and photographs were transferred to flat file folder 1**.
box 172, box 173
"Scrapbook, compiled by Edward McCartan about Malvina Hoffman,"
undated
Sketchbooks, drawings, and photographs, Series VIII.
1885-1965, undated
Physical Description:
6 Linear Feet
20 boxes, 9 flat file folders, 4 rolls
Scope and Contents note
Series VIII is organized in three subseries: The sketchbooks in Series VIII.A. span Hoffman's start with her formative years
and continue through her career; the large photographs of sculptures and commissions in Series VIII.B. depict some of Hoffman's
sculptures and complement the photographs in Series V; and the working drawings, sketches, and progress photographs in Series
VIII.C. document Hoffman's working methods.
Arrangement
Arranged in three subseries: Series VIII.A.: Sketchbooks, 1898-1964, undated; Series VIII.B.: Large photographs of sculptures
and commissions, 1915-1960; and Series VIII.C.: Working drawings, sketches, and progress photographs,
1885-1965, undated.
Sketchbooks, Series VIII.A.
1898-1964, undated
Physical Description:
86 vols.
Scope and Contents note
Sketchbooks from Hoffman's classes and travels include figure, portrait, landscape, and animal studies.
Sketchbooks,
1901-1964, undated
box 174, folder 1
"Anatomy & Alexander's Class,"
1901-1905
Scope and Contents
Sketchbook from a class with John White Alexander, one of Hoffman's early teachers.
box 174, folder 2
"Boar's Head, Southampton, Alexander's Class,"
1903-1904
Scope and Contents
Sketchbook from a class with John White Alexander, one of Hoffman's early teachers.
box 174, folder 3
"N.Y.C. III,"
1905
Scope and Contents note
Includes portraits and animal studies.
box 174, folder 4
"Sam G., Boar's Head; children's studies, Collier's cover illustration,"
1906
Scope and Contents note
Contains watercolors and news clippings.
box 174, folder 5
"Mt. Kisco; Proctor; Salvatore,"
1907
Scope and Contents note
Proctor is the sculptor Phiminster Proctor whose studio she had use of. Includes animal and landscape studies; figure and
portrait studies.
box 174, folder 6
Sketchbook with assignments from drawing class,
1907-1908
box 174, folder 7
Sketchbook with assignments from drawing class,
1907-1908
Scope and Contents note
Contains watercolors.
box 174, folder 8
Studies of patterns and flowers,
1907-1909
Scope and Contents note
Drawings and watercolors.
box 174, folder 9
"George Barnard; Mt. Kisco,"
1908
Scope and Contents note
George Gray Barnard was one of Hoffman's early sculpture teachers. Includes portrait, animal studies, watercolors.
box 174, folder 10
"SQ Doro. / Welch / H. Pennington,"
1909
Scope and Contents note
Harper Pennington was one of Hoffman's drawing and painting teachers.Includes portrait, figure, and plant studies.
box 175, folder 1
"Rome, Florence (M. A. & M. H.),"
1910
Scope and Contents note
Includes bird and landscape studies.
box 175, folder 2
"Como; Giverny; London (M. A.),"
1910
Scope and Contents note
Janet Scudder portrait, landscape, figure studies, and animal studies.
box 175, folder 3
"SS Carmin; Italy; Keats; Paris; London,"
1910
Scope and Contents note
Includes portrait and landscape studies, architectural details, urban sites, studies of artworks.
box 175, folder 4
"Russian Ballet; Giverny (J. Scudder),"
1910
Scope and Contents note
Includes figure and landscape studies, poetry, and notes.
box 175, folder 5
"Paris types; Nijinsky; Montresor,"
1911
box 175, folder 6
"Nocquet; Borglum; Russian Ballet,"
1911
Scope and Contents note
Includes landscapes, Nijinsky sketches, architecture.
box 175, folder 7
"Giverny; J. S. Gondouin,"
1911-1912
Scope and Contents note
Includes landscapes and architectural, portrait, and figure studies.
box 175, folder 8
"Paris Types; Rodin,"
1912
Scope and Contents note
Includes figure studies and studies of other sculptures.
box 175, folder 9
"FNT; Phila., Roger Kahn; Pavlova Gavotte; Orientale,"
1913
Scope and Contents
Includes sketches for her bust of Roger Kahn; Pavlova as
La Gavotte; and
Les Orientales."
box 176, folder 1
"July, Pavlova Bacchanale Lithograph Sketches,"
1914
box 176, folder 2
"Paderewski, Russian Ballet; Pavlova Gavotte,"
1914-1915
box 176, folder 3
"Pavlova; Nijinsky; Milan; Paris Types,"
circa 1916
box 176, folder 4
"Salisbury (M. A., S. G. & M. H.); Nijinsky; Anna Pavlova,"
1916
box 176, folder 5
"Rodin; Bar Harbor; S. G. (Park Ave),"
1917-1919
box 176, folder 6
"Illustrations for articles about Balkans trip,"
1919
box 176, folder 7
"Paris; Rodin's Mrs. Bénédite; Serbia M.P.,"
1919
box 176, folder 8
"Balkan Trip; Serbia,"
1919
box 176, folder 9
"Brussels Zee Bruge; Procés; Rodin; Andelts, S. G.,"
1919
box 176, folder 10
"Pavlova; Stowitts;
La Péri,"
1920
box 176, folder 11
"Horses; Bar Harbor; Schelling; Pavlova Bacchanale,"
1921
box 177, folder 1
"Embryology;
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Architecture; Perspective,"
1921-1922, 1925
box 177, folder 2
"Meudon; Marseilles; Expo. Coloniale; London; Budapest; Vienna; Paris,"
1922
box 177, folder 3
"Celigny; Geneva Types; Paderewski,"
1922
box 177, folder 4
"Port Cros; Iacovleff; Celigny; Basle; Dornav; London; Schuré-Steiner,"
1922
box 177, folder 5
"London, Studies for the Bush House Project; Brittany,"
1923
box 177, folder 6
"London (Bush House); Cambridge; Meudon Studies,"
1923
box 177, folder 7
"Portrait/Sketches; Landscapes,"
1923
box 177, folder 8
"Liverpool; Cath; Sir Giles Scott; S. G. & I (Begmeje); Andelys,"
1925
box 177, folder 9
"Perspective Anatomy; Art League,"
1925
box 178, folder 1
"Embryology (Dr. Painter),"
1925
box 178, folder 2
"Paris; Houdon; Africa (H. D., S. G., M. H.),"
1926
box 178, folder 3
"Tunis (S. G., H. D.); Carthage; Djerba,"
1926
Scope and Contents note
Includes portrait and figure studies; animals; palm trees; bibliography.
box 178, folder 4
"Africa (H. D., S. G.); Milan; Rome; Yugoslavia; Hartsdale,"
1926
Scope and Contents note
Includes architecture, portrait and figure studies; studies of other sculptures; animal studies.
box 178, folder 5
"Tunis - '26; Milan; Rome,"
1926-1927
box 178, folder 6
"Brittany; Paris - S. G.; Kiki,"
1926-1928
Scope and Contents note
Includes portraits; landscapes, animal, architectural and sculptural studies; watercolor.
box 178, folder 7
"Zagreb; Brittany,"
1927
Scope and Contents note
Includes landscapes; architecture, figure, and sculpture studies.
box 178, folder 8
"Sienna; Assisi; Jewish Orn.,"
1928
box 178, folder 9
"World Trip - Hawaii; Japan; Java; Bali (portraits),"
1930-1931
Scope and Contents note
Contains watercolors.
box 179, folder 1
"Japan; China; India; Taos,"
1930-1931, 1934
Scope and Contents note
Portraits, figures, buildings.
box 179, folder 2
"Brittany, Wrestlers; St. Gildas, Dr. Carrel; Le Miracle; Nude Studies; St. Guénolé,"
1930, 1935-1936
box 179, folder 3
"Brittany, France; Paris; Kiki - Malvina's Siamese Cat; New Mexico; American Indians,"
1933
Scope and Contents note
Landscapes, portraits, and figure studies.
box 179, folder 4
"Brittany; St. Guénolé & Types,"
1935
box 179, folder 5
"Rudier Foundry; Steamer Screens; Brittany,"
1935
box 179, folder 6
Landscapes, portraits, and watercolors,
1939-1940, 1944
box 179, folder 7
Landscapes, bird studies, and watercolors,
1941, 1947
box 179, folder 8
Sketches (figures, boats, and landscapes),
1956
box 179, folder 9
Landscapes and watercolors,
1957
box 179, folder 10
Landscapes, figure studies, portraits, and watercolors,
1960-1962
box 180, folder 1
Watercolors (landscapes),
1963-1964
box 180, folder 2
"Art Lessons (notes),"
undated
box 180, folder 3
"The Bull Fight Series,"
circa 1952
box 180, folder 5
Miscellaneous drawings,
undated
box 180, folder 6
"Grace Cathedral Project,"
1942-1944
Scope and Contents note
With a watercolor.
box 180, folder 7
"Valentines cards" (watercolors),
1903
box 180, folder 8
"Whimsical sketches,"
undated
Early Work by Hoffman,
1898-1920
box 181, folder 1
Early sketches, watercolors,
1898-1910
Container Summary: circa 40 items, 1 watercolor
Scope and Contents note
Loose drawings and sketches.
box 181, folder 2
Early sketches,
1900-1912
Container Summary: circa 40 items, watercolors
Scope and Contents note
Includes a study for
Daboa and
L'Offrande.
box 181, folder 3
Early pastels and watercolors,
1910-1920
Container Summary: 9 items
Figure studies,
1910-1917
box 182, folder 1
Figure studies,
1910-1917
Container Summary: circa 15 items
Scope and Contents note
Loose drawings and sketchbooks with photograph of "Serbia" (Serbian National Defense League poster) and sketches of plasters
in Rodin's studio.
box 182, folder 2
Anatomical studies, with sketches of sculptures in Rodin's studio,
circa 1910
Sketchbooks relating to Hoffman's travels,
1930-1937
box 183, folder 1
"Sketchbook, World Trip: Hawaii, Japan, China, Cambodian Dancers,"
1930-1932
"Sketchbook, World Trip: Hawaii, Japan, China, Cambodian Dancers", 1930-1932
box 183, folder 2
"Sketchbook, World Trip: Java, India, Brittany,"
1932
box 183, folder 3
"Sketchbook: Taos, New Mexico; Scotland,"
1933-1936
box 183, folder 4
"Sketchbook: Scotland,"
1937
Large photographs of sculptures and commissions, Series VIII.B.
1915-1960
Physical Description:
3 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Large photographs depict various Hoffman sculptures, including those for the Hall of Man, Pavlova dance sculptures, and Paderwwski
portraits.
Scrapbooks with photographs relating to Hoffman's sculptures,
1930-1937
box 183, folder 1
Photographs, commissions for
The Races of Mankind,
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races), Epinal Memorial, and War Relief,
1937-1942
box 183, folder 2
Photograph of bronze dance sculptures from Egypt, Bali, Mongolia, and Cambodia,
undated
Container Summary: 1 item
box 183, folder 3
Photographs of plaster model for
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races), New York World's Fair,
circa 1937-1939
Container Summary: 3 items
box 183, folder 4
Photographs of
The Races of Mankind (Hall of Man) sculptures and
Head of Christ,
1942
Container Summary: 2 items
box 183, folder 5
Photographs of
The Races of Mankind (Hall of Man) wood sculptures,
1940
Container Summary: 2 items
box 183, folder 6
Photographs, "Serbia" poster (Serbian National Defense League), "Bundles for Britain" and Epinal Monument friezes,
circa 1919-1960
Container Summary: circa 10 items
Photographs for
The Races of Mankind (Hall of Man), Epstein Mausoleum, and Epinal,
1916-1960
box 185*, folder 1
Photographs of
The Races of Mankind (Hall of Man) sculptures,
1930-1933
Container Summary: 11 items
Scope and Contents note
Includes images of Hoffman in Paris with Stanley Field, and at the Rudier foundry.
box 185*, folder 2
Photographs of final models for
The Races of Mankind (Hall of Man) sculptures,
1930-1933
Container Summary: circa 25 photographs
Scope and Contents note
Photograph of
African Girl and
Tamil Man (
Tree Climber) moved to Flat File folder 9**.
box 185*, folder 3
Photographs of designs for Jacob Epstein Mausoleum,
Faun and Cub," and Epinal Memorial Cemetery,
1916, 1929, circa 1948-1960
Container Summary: 7 photographs
Photographs: Pavlova dance sculptures, Paderewerski portrait,
1915-1932
box 186*, folder 1
Pavlova posing for Hoffman,
1915
Container Summary: 4 items
Scope and Contents note
Includes
New York Times article about
Bacchanale.
box 186*, folder 2
Dance sculptures (
La Gavotte,
Bacchanale Frieze),
1915
Container Summary: 3 photographs
box 186*, folder 3
Pavlova posing for
La Gavotte,
circa 1915
Container Summary: 1 item
box 186*, folder 4
Photographs and drawing of Pavlova,
circa 1915
Container Summary: 3 items
box 186*, folder 5
Andreas Pavley, Pavlova, and Paderewski,
circa 1920, 1932
Container Summary: 4 items
Scope and Contents
All of the photographs are signed.
box 186*, folder 6
Pavlova dance sculptures
Container Summary: 2 items
Scope and Contents note
Gavotte;
La Péri [Pavlova with Stowitz];
Russian Dancers [Pavlova with Mordkin]; Paderewski portraits:
Paderewski the Statesman;
Paderewski the Artist; and
Paderewski the StatesmanPaderewski the Friend.
box 186*, folder 7
Photograph of Pavlova and Pavley posing for "Bacchanale,"
circa 1915
box 186*, folder 8
Pavlova's costume Party (Pavlova as
Byzantine Madonna),
undated
box 186*, folder 9
Bust of Pavlova,
undated
Container Summary: 3 photographs
Working drawings, sketches, and progress photographs, Series VIII.C.
1885-1965, undated
Physical Description:
5 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Series VIII.C contains drawings for study, design development, and fabrication of Hoffman's sculptures and commissions. Progress
photographs document development of the work.
Dance studies,
circa 1915
Scope and Contents note
Refer to flat file folders 3** and 4** for items relating to this box.
box 187*, folder 1
Working drawings,
undated
Container Summary: 6 drawings, matted
box 187*, folder 2-12
Dance studies,
undated
Container Summary: 47 drawings, 1 watercolor
Working drawings for
Bacchanale Frieze, dance sculptures, and Epinal War Memorial,
circa 1915, circa 1948-1960
box 188, folder 1
Fold out sketchbook,
Bacchanale Frieze,
circa 1915
box 188, folder 2-4
Panel studies,
Bacchanale Frieze,
circa 1915
Container Summary: 21 drawings
box 188, folder 5
Bacchanale Frieze,
circa 1915
Container Summary: 5 drawings
box 188, folder 6
Studies for dance sculptures,
circa 1915
Container Summary: circa 50 drawings
Scope and Contents
Bacchanale Frieze;
La Gavotte;
Petrouchka [Nijinsky]; and
La Péri.
box 188, folder 7-8
Working drawings, Epinal War Memorial,
circa 1948-1960
Container Summary: circa 50 drawings
Scope and Contents note
Relates to Box 190*
Working drawings for Grace Cathedral project, Joslin project, Epstein Mausoleum, and other commissions,
circa 1924-1965
box 189*, folder 1
Grace Cathedral project,
circa 1942-1944
Container Summary: 6 items
box 189*, folder 2
Joslin project, Boston,
circa 1956-1965
Container Summary: 6 drawings
Scope and Contents note
4 drawings transferred from Box 20, Folder 8 and Folder 10.
box 189*, folder 3
Proposed Design for the Eleanor Van Rensselear Fairfax Medal (National Society of Colonial Dames of America to Margaret Sloan),
1924-1925
Container Summary: 2 drawings
box 189*, folder 4
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,
1927
Container Summary: 8 photographs, 18 drawings
Scope and Contents note
Large drawing transferred to FF 5**.
box 189*, folder 5
Epstein Mausoleum
Container Summary: 18 drawings, 1 watercolor
box 189*, folder 6
Study for
Boy Neptune fountain,
1925
Container Summary: 3 drawings
box 189*, folder 7
Study of bas-relief panel for Mahanoy City Post Office, Pennsylvania,
1939
Container Summary: 2 drawings
Working drawings and photographs for Epinal and IBM war memorials,
1942-1960
Scope and Contents note
Refer to FF 1**, 2**, 7** and 8** for items relating to this box.
box 190*, folder 1
Progress and research photographs, Epinal,
circa 1953
Container Summary: 24 photographs
box 190*, folder 2-3
Working drawings, Epinal Monument,
circa 1948-1960
Container Summary: 20 drawings, 2 photographs, 1 drawing
Scope and Contents note
1 blueprint from Box 22, F 1.
box 190*, folder 4
Design, "Atlas of the Races of Mankind," with photographic representation of "Map of Mankind, Racial Types, Field Museum of
Natural History, Chicago,"
circa 1944
Container Summary: 2 items
box 190*, folder 5
Watercolor drawing, IBM project,
1947
box 190*, folder 6
Working drawing, IBM project,
1947
box 190*, folder 7
Working drawings and progress photographs, IBM project and Presbrey-Leland flagpole,
circa 1942-1946
Container Summary: 11 items
Scope and Contents note
The IBM project honored those who served in the Armed Forces in WWII.
box 190*, folder 8
Working drawings, Presbrey-Leland flagpole,
circa 1942-1960
Container Summary: 2 items
box 190*, folder 9-10
Cut-out compositions by disabled veterans at Cushing General Hospital, Framingham,
circa 1946
Container Summary: 4 items
Various drawings and sketches,
1899-1964, undated
Scope and Contents note
Refer to FF 6** for items relating to this box.
box 191*, folder 1
Drawings, "Six Centers of Kundalini"
circa 1917
Container Summary: 6 drawings
Scope and Contents note
Used in prisoner of war reliefs applied to
Column of Life sculpture.
box 191*, folder 2
Studies for Bali Dancers,
circa 1930-1931
Container Summary: 4 drawings
box 191*, folder 3
Studies for "Bullfight series,"
circa 1952
Container Summary: 13 drawings, watercolors
Scope and Contents note
Includes cloth from Box 148.
box 191*, folder 4
Dance studies in pencil,
circa 1911
Container Summary: 9 drawings
box 191*, folder 5
Studies of Pavley and Pavlova,
circa 1915
Container Summary: 4 drawings
box 191*, folder 6
Dance studies,
undated
Container Summary: 3 drawings
box 191*, folder 7
"Anatomical Studies,"
undated
Container Summary: 2 drawings
Miscellaneous drawings,
1915, 1930-1933, undated
box 191*, folder 8
1916, undated
Container Summary: circa 6 items
Scope and Contents note
The Sacrifice (War Memorial at Memorial Church, Harvard University; a watercolor stage and costume design for
Ballet d'Octave Fantastique (1914); and a drawing entitled "Early work by M. Hoffman."
box 191*, folder 9
1915, 1930-1933
Container Summary: circa 10 items
Scope and Contents note
Marianne Moore portrait study; sketch for
Serbia (Serbian National Defense League poster, 1915), and studies of Native Americans, circa 1930-1933.
box 191*, folder 10
Studies, blueprints for various projects,
circa 1945-1964
Container Summary: circa 30 drawings
Scope and Contents note
Studies for Kimber Farms; Ruth Slenczynska Medal (transferred from Box 23, Folder 5); and Genetics Award (transferred from
Box 23, Folder 4), 1954-1956 - circa 18 drawings. Blueprints for Alexander Weddell Memorial tablet (transferred from Box 22,
Folder 6), 1945-1948 - 2 items. Studies for Henry David Thoreau Portrait for Hall of Fame, New York University (transferred
from Box 23, Folder 8), 1963-1964, - 10 drawings, blueprints.
box 192*, folder 1
Portrait studies,
circa 1904-1948
Container Summary: 16 drawings
Scope and Contents note
Portrait studies of Harry Fairbanks (1904); Dr. Joseph Fraenkel; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1948); Phil Wadsworth; Robert
Bacon; Colonel Pribićević; Isaac Selizman (circa 1915); Felix Warburg (1935); Samuel Grimson (1932); and An Den Mond (1904).
box 192*, folder 2
Charcoal sketch of paratrooper and poster for
Bundles for Britain brooch,
1941
Container Summary: 2 items
Scope and Contents
"Bundles for Britain" was an American war relief program founded by Natalie Latham who modeled it on the British War Relief
Society. The brooch's obverse depicts the American Eagle and the British Lion fighting a serpent at their feet the American
and British flags appearing behind them.
box 192*, folder 3
Watercolor drawing, "la houe 'Nommo' - harpe luth des Dogon - métier à Tisser - caisse de forgerou," by Hoffman,
undated
Scope and Contents note
Drawing featured in an ethnographic journal article by Marcel Griaule.
box 192*, folder 4
Color wheel and color prism,
1899
Container Summary: 2 watercolors
box 192*, folder 5
Pastel, reclining figures,
undated
Container Summary: 2 items
box 192*, folder 6
Dance studies for
Après-midi d'un faune (Vaslav Nijinsky);
Le Narcisse,
undated
Container Summary: circa 15 items
box 192*, folder 7
Studies for Bush House Group,
1924-1925
Container Summary: 6 drawings
box 192*, folder 8
Miscellaneous drawings,
1927, 1936, 1939
Container Summary: circa 35 items
Scope and Contents note
Dance International Fountain, circa 1939; World Tour to Africa, circa 1936; Boldini study, undated;
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1927.
box 193, folder 1
The Poor Children of New York City, original drawings for book by Hoffman with published copies,
undated
Container Summary: 5 items
box 193, folder 2
Sketchbook from Paris,
1906-1910
Container Summary: 3 items
box 193, folder 3
Study for "Despair" and Sketchbook, "Ma Mère,"
undated
Container Summary: 2 items
box 193, folder 4
Dance Studies with watercolor of Oukrainsky,
circa 1915-1920
Container Summary: circa 10 items
box 193, folder 5
Sketchbook, miscellaneous studies,
1919, undated
Container Summary: circa 25 items, 1 watercolor
Scope and Contents note
"Red Cross;"
Frileuse; "Death Studies of Henry C. Frick [1919]," Sir David; Cromwell Twins; and Colonel Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla.
Oversize drawings and photographs,
1885-1960, undated
flatfile 1**
Working drawings for Presbrey-Leland flagpole,
circa 1942-1960
Container Summary: 3 items
Scope and Contents note
Drawings transferred from Box 190*.
flatfile 1**
Drawings and photographs relating to IBM exhibition album (from Box 171),
1947
Container Summary: circa 6 items
flatfile 2**
Architectural drawings for Epinal War Memorial,
1948-1960
Container Summary: 3 drawings
Scope and Contents note
Drawings transferred from Box 190*.
flatfile 3**
Working drawings for
Bacchanale Frieze,
circa 1915
Container Summary: 2 drawings
Scope and Contents note
Portfolio #5 - drawings transferred from Box 187*.
flatfile 4**
Working drawings for
Bacchanale Frieze,
circa 1915
Container Summary: 2 drawings
Scope and Contents note
Portfolio #6 - drawings transferred from Box 187*.
flatfile 5**
Working drawings from
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,
1927
Container Summary: 11 items
Scope and Contents note
Drawings transferred from Box 189*.
flatfile 6**
Unidentified drawing,
undated
Scope and Contents note
In sink mat, transferred from Box 191*.
flatfile 7**
Working drawing and research photograph, Epinal War Memorial,
1948-1960
Scope and Contents note
Drawing transferred from Box 190*.
flatfile 7**
Blueprints, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco,
1942-1944
Container Summary: 5 items
Scope and Contents note
Pulled from Box 22, f3.
flatfile 8**
Working drawing, Presbrey-Leland flagpole,
circa 1942-1946
Scope and Contents note
Drawing pulled from Box 190*.
flatfile 9**
Photographs of models for
Races of Mankind (Hall of Man) sculptures,
1939, undated
Container Summary: 3 items
Scope and Contents note
African Girl and
Tamil Man (
Tree Climber (from Box 185*, Folder 2), undated; "Landscape Layout of Plaza VI," Dept. of Construction, N.Y. World's Fair, August 1939.
roll 1**
Working drawings,
Bacchanale,
circa 1912
Container Summary: 6 drawings
roll 2**
Working drawings,
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and
Dance International Fountain (
Dances of the Races),
circa 1927-1939
Container Summary: 3 drawings
roll 3**
Linen Cloth with embroidered signatures of family and friends of Hoffman,
1885-1896
Scope and Contents note
Signatories include Mallie Hoffman, Helen Fidelia Hoffman, and several graduating class members of Harvard, Yale, and Westminster.
From Box 194*.
roll 4**
Poster, "Map of Races of Mankind," Field Museum,
undated
Awards and honorary degrees, Series IX.
1915-1957
Physical Description:
1 box(es)
Scope and Contents
The series comprises awards, honorary degrees, and certificates received by Hoffman between 1915 and 1957.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
box 194*, folder 1
American Association of University Women, NYC Branch, Woman of the Year award,
1957
Container Summary: circa 23 items
Scope and Contents note
With congratulatory letters and notes.
box 194*, folder 2
Bates College, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts,
1955 June 12
box 194*, folder 3
Bates College Bulletin, Commencement Announcement and citation,
1955
Container Summary: 4 items
box 194*, folder 4
Smith College, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters,
1951 June 11
box 194*, folder 5
Mount Holyoke College, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters,
1937 May 8
box 194*, folder 6
Northwestern University, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts,
1945 June 13
Scope and Contents note
Includes the commencement program and a letter from University President inviting Hoffman to accept the degree.
box 194*, folder 7
The National Arts Club, Certificate of Appreciation and Life Member Award,
1962 January 31
box 194*, folder 8
National Academy of Design, Certificate of Merit,
1963 June
box 194*, folder 8
National Institute of Arts and Letters, certifying Elected Membership,
1937
box 194*, folder 8
New York Historical Society, certifying Fellowship,
1951 December 19
box 194*, folder 8
Concord Art Association, Annual Exhibition Honorable Mention,
1925 May
box 194*, folder 8
Ministère de L'Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts, nommée Officier de l'Instruction publique,
1919 March 21
box 194*, folder 8
National Sculpture Society, certification of Fellowship,
1958 January 29
box 194*, folder 8
Record of Presentation of and Citation for the honorary degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Rochester,
1937 June 21
Container Summary: 2 items
box 194*, folder 8
National Academy of Design, certifying that Hoffman is an associate of the Academy,
1926 May 3
box 194*, folder 8
National Academy of Design, certifying that Hoffman is an "Academian of the Academy,"
1931 April 22
box 194*, folder 8
Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur, nommée Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Paris,
1952 August 10
box 194*, folder 8
Royal Order of St. Sava III, conferred by Peter I, King of Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia,
1921
box 194*, folder 8
U.S. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, Diploma of Honorable Mention upon Hoffman for Sculpture,
1915
