Self-Portrait+by+Malvina+Hoffman

Date: 1929
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1985/1985.73.3_1a.jpg?itok=plkKe4vk width="271" height="349" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/self-portrait-10606"]] || Title: **Self-Portrait**

Artist: **Malvina Hoffman** Born: New York, New York 1885 Died: New York, New York 1966 Medium: limestone Dimensions: 25 3/4 x 17 1/8 x 13 in. (65.4 x 43.5 x 33.1 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Charles Lamson Hoffman Family

Accession: 1985.73.3 || Malvina Hoffman was praised for her ability to capture the character of the sitter, a skill she learned while working with Rodin. In this self-portrait, Hoffman modeled herself in her own characteristic pose, as a sculptor. She looks to the side, as if she is observing a sitter.
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