id: 97797
accession number: 1917.42
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The Thinker, 1880–81. Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). Bronze; overall: 182.9 x 98.4 x 142.2 cm (72 x 38 3/4 x 56 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ralph King, 1917.42
title: The Thinker
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creation date: 1880–81
creation date earliest: 1880
creation date latest: 1881
current location: SE South Entrance
creditline: Gift of Ralph King
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: bronze
department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 182.9 x 98.4 x 142.2 cm (72 x 38 3/4 x 56 in.)
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inscription: signed on base near sinister foot: "A. Rodin."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Conserving the Past for the Future
opening date: 2001-03-04T00:00:00
Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001).
title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00
Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
purchased from the artist in 1916.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Rodin, Auguste, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Christina Buley-Uribe, Patrick R. Crowley, C. D. Dickerson, Laure de Margerie, Véronique Mattiussi, Elyse Nelson, Jennifer A. Thompson, and Nora M. Rosengarten. Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern. Williamstown, Massachusetts : Clark Art Institute, 2022.
page number: Mentioned: p. 28, 129, 235, 238; reproduced: p. 238, fig. 9.18
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Margerie, Laure de, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Elisabeth Lyman, Miriam Rosen, Cole Swensen, and Susan Wise. French Sculpture: An American Passion. [Ghent] : Snoeck, 2023.
page number: Mentioned: p. 408 and 441; Reproduced: p. 407, fig. 4 and 441, fig. 5
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"Rodin Memorial Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 9 (1917): 162-63.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 162-163
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136150
"Modern Sculpture at the Museum." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 6 (1917): 108-09.
page number: Reproduced: Front Matter; Mentioned: p. 108
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136110
"Report of the Museum's Second Year." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 6/7 (1918): 69-79.
page number: Mentioned: p. 70
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25136208
Milliken, William. "Paintings." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 2 (February 1942): 25-26
page number: Mentioned: p. 25
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141340
Tacha, Athena. Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
page number: Mentioned: p. 96-97, cat. no. X; Reproduced: p. [53], Plate 68
url: https://archive.org/details/RodinSculpture/page/n110
Tacha, Athena. A Supplement to Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
page number: Mentioned: p. 130S, cat. no. X
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Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99.
page number: Mentioned: p. 60
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667
Franklin, David. The Cleveland Museum of Art. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012.
page number: Reproduced: p. 60 - 61
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Valencia, Natalia. "When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time." In Number Eleven: Cyprien Gaillard. Julia Stoschek Foundation, ed., 14-36. Dusseldorf: Julia Stoschek Collection, 2015.
page number: Mentioned: P. 30
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"Westfalen." In Number Eleven: Cyprien Gaillard. Julia Stoschek Foundation, ed., 68-73. Dusseldorf: Julia Stoschek Collection, 2015.
page number: Mentioned: P. 69-70
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Hudak, Brittany Mariel. "Masked Men, Hatchets, and Bombs: Frank Oriti's Clarity, Rodin's The Thinker, and the Silencing of Art Vandalism." Collective Arts Network. CAN Journal, Winter 2015-2016.
page number: Mentioned: p. 65-67; Reproduced: p. 66
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Tableau. [Utrecht]: [Tableau], 1978.
page number: Reproduced and mentioned; p. 130
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Anonymous. "Leftovers/I was Opened." Cabinet 65(Autumn/Winter 2017/2018).
page number: Reproduced: p. 18-21
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Robinson, William H. and Dansereau-Tackett, Julie. "Rodin--100 Years: Commemorating the centennial of the French master's death.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 57, no. 5 (September/October 2017): 8-9.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 8.
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Arendsee, M., and M. Steinman-Arendsee. "Take the CAN disability aesthetics tour, at the Cleveland Museum of art." CAN Journal (Winter 2019/20): 76-87.
page number: Mentioned: p. 85; Reproduced: p. 86
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Demes, Francis, Jaime Juarez, and James Clark. "Challenges Requiring New Thinking in Museum Security." Collections 20, no. 2 (June 2024): 290-297.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 294-295, fig. 4
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