HOFFMAN, MALVINA (1887— ), American sculptor, was born in New York city on June 15, 1887. She studied sculp ture in New York with Herbert Adams and Gutzon Borglum, and in Paris with Auguste Rodin. After obtaining recognition in Paris, where she was awarded a first prize at the Salon in 1911 for "Russian Dancers," she settled in New York. Her memorial group, "The Sacrifice," presented to Harvard university by Mrs. Robert Bacon, but placed temporarily in the cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York city, is considered the finest of her works. Three portraits by her of Paderewski, when exhibited in New York in 1920, attracted great admiration. Other works are "John Muir" in the American Museum of Natural History, New York city; "Modern Crusader" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York city; "Bacchanale Russe" in the Luxembourg Musee, Paris, and "Gervase Elwes" in Queen's Hall, London. One of her latest commissions was a heroic size stone group over the entrance of Bush House, Strand, London. She was married to S. B. Grimson on June 6, 1924, in New York city.