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Malvina Hoffman (1885-1966) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2024/06/15/malvina-hoffman/ Malvina Cornell Hoffman (Jun 15, 1885 – Jul 10, 1966) was an American sculptor and author. Well known for her life-size bronze sculptures of people, she also worked in plaster and marble. Hoffman created portrait busts of working-class people and significant individuals. She was particularly known for her sculptures of dancers, such as Anna Pavlova. Her sculpture series of culturally diverse people, entitled Hall of the Races of Mankind, was a popular permanent exhibition at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. It was featured at the Century of Progress International Exposition at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933. via W

Eva Kotchever (15 June 1891 – 19 December 1943), known also as Eve Adams or Eve Addams, born as Chawa Złoczower, was a Polish-Jewish émigré librarian and writer, who is the author of Lesbian Love and from 1925 to 1926 ran a popular, openly lesbian literary salon in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, called Eve's Hangout. It closed after Eva was convicted and jailed for obscenity and disorderly conduct, which resulted in her deportation to Poland in 1927. She was later arrested in France in 1943 and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 17 December, where she was murdered two days later on 19 December. Via W

Eva Ryynänen (1915-2001) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/eva-ryynanen/ Eva Ryynänen (née Åsenbrygg; 15 June 1915 — 18 October 2001) was a Finnish sculptor known especially for her work in wood. She created in total c. 500 works, of which approximately 50 are in collections outside Finland. She is especially known for her numerous wooden sculptures, reliefs and wood carvings housed in many Finnish churches. She also worked extensively with bronze and marble. via W

Lillian Bassman (1917-2012) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/lillian-bassman/ Lillian Bassman (June 15, 1917 – February 13, 2012) was an American photographer and painter. By the 1970s Bassman's interest in pure form in her fashion photography was out of vogue. She turned to her own photo projects and abandoned fashion photography. In doing so she tossed out 40 years of negatives and prints—her life's work. A forgotten bag filled with hundreds of images was discovered over 20 years later. Bassman's fashion photographic work began to be re-appreciated in the 1990s. She worked with digital technology and abstract color photography into her nineties to create a new series of work. She used Photoshop for her image manipulation. via W

Title: Lillian Bassman Creator(s): Katz, Nancy Lee, 1947-2018, photographer Date Created/Published: 10/14/[19]97 [printed between 2018 and 2021]. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2022630224/

Eva Kotchever (15 June 1891 – 19 December 1943), known also as Eve Adams or Eve Addams, born as Chawa Złoczower, was a Polish-Jewish émigré librarian and writer, who is the author of Lesbian Love and from 1925 to 1926 ran a popular, openly lesbian literary salon in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, called Eve's Hangout. It closed after Eva was convicted and jailed for obscenity and disorderly conduct, which resulted in her deportation to Poland in 1927. She was later arrested in France in 1943 and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 17 December, where she was murdered two days later on 19 December. Via W