Malvina was awarded the largest bronze commission in the history of art and paid more than any other artist, man or woman 1930 ($1.4 Million in today's dollars). To produce the Hall of Man, Malvina traveled the world, living amongst native cultures in order to create sculptures that were truly representative of the rare people groups she studied. Her work, now displayed in the Field Museum in Chicago, is of historic significance to the anthropological community, as well as to the cultures she recorded before their demise. However, it has been shrouded in controversy for much of the 20th Century.