Minna Harkavy

Minna Harkavy (November 13, 1887 – 1987) (birth occasionally listed as 1895[1][2]) was an American sculptor.

Minna Harkavy
Born1887 (1887)
Died1987 (aged 99–100)
Known forSculpture

She was born in Estonia to Yoel and Hannah Rothenberg[3] and immigrated to the United States around 1900.[4] She studied at the Art Students League, at Hunter College and in Paris with Antoine Bourdelle.[5]

Harkavy was a WPA Federal Art Project artist, for whom she created a 1942 wood relief piece, Industry and Landscape of Winchendon for the post office in Winchendon, Massachusetts.[6]

She was a founding member of the Sculptors Guild and showed a work, My Children are Desolate Because the Enemy Prevailed in the Second Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition[7] Negro Head in the 1940-1941[8] and Woman in Thought in 1941.[9]

Harkavy was a founding member of the New York Society of Women Artists. Politically she was known as a leftist and anti-fascist with a strong social consciousness. In 1931 she exhibited a bust of Hall Johnson in the Museum of Western Art in Moscow and the work was purchased for the Pushkin Museum there.[10] In 1932 she represented the John Reed Club at an anti-war conference in Amsterdam.[3]

A bust of Italian-American anti-fascist (and her lover[3]) Carlo Tresca who was assassinated in New York in 1943 was installed in his birthplace of Sulmona, Italy.[10]

She was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949.

She married Louis Harkavy, a New York pharmacist who also wrote for Yiddish-language periodicals.[3]

Work

Harkavy's works can be found in:

Harkavy's New England Woman, was displayed at the New York World's Fair of 1939[3]

References
  1. Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1990, p. 266
  2. McGlauflin, Alice Coe, ed., Who's Who in American Art 1938–1939 vol.2, The American Federation of Arts, Washington D.C., 1937
  3. "Minna B. Harkavy". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  4. "Minna Harkavy, 101, Sculptor and Teacher". The New York Times. 4 August 1987.
  5. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
  6. Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1984, p. 214
  7. Sculptors Guild Second Outdoor Exhibition: 1939, The Sculptors' Guild, New York, 1939, p. 50
  8. Sculptors' Guild Travelling Exhibition: 1940-194, The Sculptors' Guild, New York, 1940, p. 26
  9. Sculptors Guild Third Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition: 1941, The Sculptors' Guild, New York, 1941, p. 25
  10. Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1990, pp. 266–267
  11. "Minna Harkavy". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  12. Garvey, Timothy J. (1995). "Merchants as Models: The Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame and Changing Values in Postwar Chicago". Illinois Historical Journal. 88 (3): 154–172. ISSN 0748-8149. JSTOR 40192955.
  13. "The head of the worker". NeWestMuseum. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
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