S93: The Sacrifice
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- S93
- People
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Malvina Cornell Hoffman, American (New York, NY 1885 - 1966 New York, NY)
- Title
- The Sacrifice
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Bacon Memorial
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- 1922
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305465
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Caen marble
- Technique
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 213.4 x 377.2 x 179.1 cm (84 x 148 1/2 x 70 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: right; upper part of base: Malvina Hoffman:/Fecit 1922
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Robert Bacon to the University, 1922
- Object Number
- S93
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Contemporary American Sculpture, exh. cat., Press of the Kalkhoff Company (New York, NY, 1929), p. 152
- Susan Martis, "Passion and Valor in Malvina Hoffman's Sculptures from the Interwar Years", Essays on Women's Artistic and Cultural Contributions for the New Woman Following the First World War, ed. Paula Birnbaum and Anna Novakov (Lewiston, 2009), p. 153, fig. 3.6.
- Patricia Phagan, Women Picturing Women: From Personal Spaces to Public Ventures, exh. cat., Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY, 2021), pp. 104-106, fig. 46, ill. (b/w)
Verification Level
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