A Modern Crusader

Inscription: Signed (right side of base): MALVINA HOFFMAN

Marking: Foundry mark (back of base): ROMAN BRONZE WORKS INC. N–Y–

Mrs. E. H. Harriman, New York (1918; her gift to MMA)

Terre Haute, Ind. Sheldon Swope Art Gallery. January–July 1948, no catalogue.

"Sculpture, Sketches, and Prints on View: Art at Home and Abroad." New York Times (July 14, 1918), p. 59, ill. (unknown cast), calls it "The Modern Crusader".

"Knitted Helmet." Nashville Banner (August 4, 1918), p. 28.

"Recent Accessions: A Modern Crusader." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 14 (February 1919), p. 40.

"Hoffman Bust Sold." American Art News (March 15, 1919), p. 1.

Lillian G. Genn. "Women Who've Won. No. 19—Malvina Hoffman." Brooklyn Daily Eagle (August 22, 1928), p. 24.

Malvina Hoffman. Heads and Tales. New York, 1936, p. 128, ill. p. 124, calls it "Modern Crusader".

Malvina Hoffman. Malvina Hoffman. New York, 1948, p. 63.

Albert TenEyck Gardner. American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1965, p. 158.

Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz. Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893–1939. Austin, 1989, p. 56, call it "Modern Crusader".

Joan M. Marter in American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Thayer Tolles. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885. New York and New Haven, 2001, pp. 738–39, no. 368, ill.

Janis Conner. "The Ethereal Icon: Malvina Hoffman's Worshipful Imagery of Anna Pavlova." Perspectives on American Sculpture before 1925. Ed. Thayer Tolles. New York, 2003, pp. 130–31, fig. 104.