American, 20th century, male. Active in France. Born 1 August 1889, in Calonsville (Maryland); died 1954. Sculptor. Wilmer Hoffman studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia and received a travel bursary. He exhibited in America before moving to Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and at the Tuileries. He specialised in sculpting busts of Indians and black people, exaggerating the forms to facilitate the effects of light....