The next year, at the age of seventy-nine, Malvina Cornell Hoffman died while working in her studio in Manhattan, which had been purchased for her early in her career by the philanthropist Mary Williamson Averell.
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Over the next forty years she would photograph some of the most famous artists, writers, dancers and other cultural icons of the time, including Alfred Stieglitz, Pearl S. Buck, Charles E. Burchfield, Fyodor Chaliapin, Ralph Adams Cram, W. E. B. Du Bois, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Granville Hicks, Malvina Hoffman, Langston Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Isamu Noguchi, Maxfield Parrish and Eleanor Roosevelt.
During the early 1930s he served as an assistant to Malvina Hoffman while she was creating the sculptures that would constitute The Races of Mankind exhibition at the Field Museum of Natural History.
The Races of Mankind, also known as The Hall of Man, was an exhibition of a series of over 90 statues created for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago by sculptor Malvina Hoffman representing the various races of humankind.