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Malvina Hoffman: Mangbetu Woman. © Field Museum, Chicago, 1933.
Malvina Hoffman: Nordic Type. © Field Museum, Chicago, 1933.
Four panels from Carrie Mae Weems’s series “From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried,” 1995-96, C-prints with sandblasted text on glass, 26½ by 22¾ inches each. Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman, by Marianne Kinkel, Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2011; 260 pages.
Kehinde Wiley: Ice T, 2005, oil on canvas, 96 by 72 inches. Courtesy Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, Calif.