id: 97797 accession number: 1917.42 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.42 updated: 2022-04-05 09:00:26.230000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1880–81 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1881 current location: SE South Entrance creditline: Gift of Ralph King copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: bronze department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960 type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 182.9 x 98.4 x 142.2 cm (72 x 38 3/4 x 56 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed on base near sinister foot: "A. Rodin." translation: remark: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * --- PROVENANCE purchased from the artist in 1916. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This enlarged version of The Thinker is one of less than 10 cast during Rodin's lifetime. digital description: wall description: The Thinker was first developed as part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, a sculptured doorway for a proposed museum of decorative arts in Paris. Intended to be part of a relief directly above the doors, the rugged figure was originally conceived as a generalized image of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), who wrote the Divine Comedy. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "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 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 url: 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 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 url: "Westfalen." In Number Eleven: Cyprien Gaillard. Julia Stoschek Foundation, ed., 68-73. Dusseldorf: Julia Stoschek Collection, 2015. page number: Mentioned: P. 69-70 url: 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 url: Tableau. [Utrecht]: [Tableau], 1978. page number: Reproduced and mentioned; p. 130 url: Anonymous. "Leftovers/I was Opened." Cabinet 65(Autumn/Winter 2017/2018). page number: Reproduced: p. 18-21 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.42/1917.42_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.42/1917.42_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.42/1917.42_full.tif