"the other figures. Some critics believe that it was originally intended to depict Dante at the gates of Hell, pondering his great poem. Other critics reject that theory, pointing out that the figure is naked while Dante is fully clothed throughout his poem, and that the sculpture's physique does not correspond to Dante's effete figure. The sculpture is nude, as Rodin wanted a heroic figure in the tradition of Michelangelo, to represent intellect as well as poetry. This detail from the ""Gates of Hell"" was first named ""The Thinker"" by foundry workers, who noted its similarity to Michelangelo's statue of"
"Beautiful Wife"", ""The Falling Man"", and ""The Prodigal Son"". ""The Thinker"" (originally titled ""The Poet"", after Dante) was to become one of the most well-known sculptures in the world. The original was a high bronze piece created between 1879 and 1889, designed for the ""Gates""<nowiki>'</nowiki> lintel, from which the figure would gaze down upon Hell. While ""The Thinker"" most obviously characterizes Dante, aspects of the Biblical Adam, the mythological Prometheus, and Rodin himself have been ascribed to him. Other observers de-emphasize the apparent intellectual theme of ""The Thinker"", stressing the figure's rough physicality and the emotional tension emanating from it."
"quoted in the Detroit News stating that the value of the statue is in excess of $1,000,000. Fredericks created this sculpture after George Gough Booth, the founder of Cranbrook Educational Community, asked him to make a ""Thinker"" for the steps of the Cranbrook Art Museum similar to Auguste Rodin's renowned ""The Thinker"", a cast of which is at the entrance of the Detroit Institute of Arts. The pose Fredericks' Thinker assumes is a direct reference to Rodin's sculpture; however, Fredericks' replacement of Rodin's heroic male nude with a bemused chimpanzee is a thought provoking variation on the earlier statue and"
"Quentin Anderson, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Mark Van Doren. Philosophy Hall was not occupied by protesters during the 1968 protests. It served instead as a refuge for faculty and a site of contentious debates among them concerning student conduct. The lawn in front of Philosophy Hall is the site of an original cast of ""The Thinker"" (""Le Penseur""), one of the most famous pieces by French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The hall was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003. It is one of only a handful of buildings on the Columbia campus named for an academic discipline, and not an"
"outside the fine arts as symbols of human emotion and character. To honor Rodin's artistic legacy, the Google search engine homepage displayed a Google Doodle featuring ""The Thinker"" to celebrate his 172nd birthday on 12 November 2012. Rodin had enormous artistic influence. A whole generation of sculptors studied in his workshop. These include Gutzon Borglum, Antoine Bourdelle, Constantin Brancusi, Camille Claudel, Charles Despiau, Malvina Hoffman, Carl Milles, François Pompon, Rodo, Gustav Vigeland, and Clara Westhoff, even though Brancusi later rejected his legacy. Rodin also promoted the work of other sculptors, including Aristide Maillol and Ivan Meštrović whom Rodin once called"
"a nearby monument to his political mentor, the late centrist UCR leader Ricardo Balbín, in 1999. Moreno Plaza is best known to many as the site of one of the few surviving original casts of Auguste Rodin's ""The Thinker"". Commissioned by Museums Director Eduardo Schiaffino for the city in 1907, he and Rodin had envisaged its placement on a pedestal on the grand steps in front of Congress – a plan which never materialized. Currently, its transfer to its intended site is under consideration. Argentina marks Kilometre Zero with a monolith in this park. The work of the brothers Máximo"
"of ancient and European art and houses the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in a neoclassical building overlooking Lincoln Park and the Golden Gate Bridge. The museum contains a representative collection of European art, the largest portion of which is French. Its most distinguished collection is of sculpture by Auguste Rodin. Casts of some of his most famous works are on display, including one of ""The Thinker"" in the Court of Honor. However, there are individual works by many other artists, including François Boucher, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, David, El Greco, Giambattista Pittoni, Rubens, and many of the Impressionists and post-Impressionists—Degas, Renoir,"
"citizens. Within just three years, he had assembled the largest collection of Rodin's works outside Paris, including bronze castings, plaster studies, drawings, prints, letters, and books. In 1926, Mastbaum commissioned French architects Paul Cret and Jacques Gréber to design the museum building and gardens. Unfortunately, the collector did not live to see his dream realized, but his widow, Etta Wedell Mastbaum honored his commitment to the city, and the Museum opened on November 29, 1929. Murals in the museum were executed by the painter Franklin C. Watkins. The best-known of Rodin's works, ""The Thinker"" (1880–1882), sits outside the museum in"
"park in 1872; in 1882, he donated the 63-acre plot to the city government, which later purchased additional land to expand it. As Wade had envisioned, the park became the home of an art museum in 1916 with the opening of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The park also contains the Wade Park Fine Arts Garden, where a number of sculptures from the CMA's holdings are showcased. The bulk of this collection are located between the original 1916 main entrance to the building and the lagoon. The collection includes a large cast of Auguste Rodin's ""The Thinker"", which sits atop"
"Allen George Newman Allen George Newman III (August 28, 1875 – February 2, 1940) was an American sculptor, best known for his statue ""The Hiker"". He was born in New York City, the son of hardware manufacturer Allen G. Newman, Jr. and his wife Ada E. Hinde. He attended public schools, and the City College of New York, 1890-92. He apprenticed under his brother-in-law, sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward, 1897-1901, then studied at the National Academy of Design. Newman's early works were relatively modest, busts and relief portraits, or architectural sculpture for buildings at American expositions. He modeled life-size figures"
"The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton is an oil painting of 1900 by Thomas Eakins. The oil painting is a depiction of the artist's brother-in-law, Louis N. Kenton (1865–1947), and it has been called ""one of Eakins's most memorable portraits"". The painting is one of a series of life size standing male portraits painted late in Eakins's career. Louis Kenton was the son of a flour and grain salesman from Philadelphia. Although little is known about his life, he was listed as a bookkeeper and clerk in that city's directories between 1889"
"Alan Turing statue The Alan Turing statue, created in slate by Stephen Kettle in 2007, is located at Bletchley Park in England as part of an exhibition on Alan Turing. It was commissioned by the American businessman and philanthropist Sidney Frank (1919–2006). The slate for the sculpture was selected from North Wales because the sculptor learned that Turing used to holiday there as a child and adult. The slate originated from Llechwedd, near Blaenau Ffestiniog. Turing is depicted seated and looking at a German Enigma machine. He is dressed in a jacket, but there is some deliberate untidiness in his"
"founding member of The Park Place Gallery. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Damascus, Pennsylvania. Forrest Myers Forrest W. Myers (born 1941 in Long Beach, California) is an American sculptor. He is best known for his pieces ""Moon Museum"" (1969) and ""The Wall"" (1973), the latter being a monumental wall sculpture in the SoHo, Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. His large steel ""Untitled"" from 1969-1970 is included in the outdoor plaza at The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, New York. Myers studied at the San Francisco Art Institute from"
"The Hiker (Newman) The Hiker is a statue made by Allen George Newman. Like Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson's statue of the same name, it was created to honor the American soldiers who took ""long hikes in steaming jungles"" during the Boxer Rebellion, the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War. Originally displayed in the New York building at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition, the statue was chosen by several camps of the United Spanish War Veterans to be erected as war memorials. The statue, quoted as ”The best bronze soldier in America” by sculptor and critic Lorado Taft, proved to be very"
"The Hiker (Kitson) The Hiker is a statue created by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson. It commemorates the American soldiers who fought in the Spanish–American War, the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine–American War. The first version of it was made for the University of Minnesota in 1906, but at least 50 copies were made, and were erected very widely across the United States. """"The Hiker"" depicts a hero stripped of his parade uniform and shown as a soldier reacting to the challenges of the battlefield."" When she created ""The Hiker"", Kitson already had a reputation for sculpting war memorial statues. For"
"Goethe–Schiller Monument (Syracuse) The Goethe–Schiller Monument in Syracuse, New York incorporates a copper double-statue of the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) and Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805). It was erected by the German-American organizations of Syracuse and Onondaga County, and was unveiled on October 15, 1911. Schiller, who is on the reader's right in the photograph, was called the ""poet of freedom"" in the US, and he had an enormous 19th Century following. The Syracuse monument was the last of 13 monuments to Schiller that were erected in US cities. Goethe was the ""supreme genius of modern German literature""; he"
"of the Spanish War Veterans. Newman married Florence Allan, March 28, 1900. They had four children, three of whom, Ramona, Helen and Thomas, lived to adulthood. Newman died on February 2, 1940, in New York City, and was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Allen George Newman Allen George Newman III (August 28, 1875 – February 2, 1940) was an American sculptor, best known for his statue ""The Hiker"". He was born in New York City, the son of hardware manufacturer Allen G. Newman, Jr. and his wife Ada E. Hinde. He attended public schools, and the City College of"
"leading sculptors of his time. It attracted more than 100,000 viewers when it toured America in 1847; and in 1851 was exhibited in Britain (along with the ""Fisher Boy"", his other very famous statue, mentioned below) at the center of the Crystal Palace Exhibition, when Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a sonnet on it. This sculpture was used in the abolitionist cause and copies of it appeared in many Union-supporting state houses. Among the best known of his other idealising statues are ""The Fisher Boy"", ""Il Penseroso"", ""Eve Disconsolate"", ""California"", ""America"" and ""The Last of the Tribe"" (also called ""The Last"
"income from art commissions was not sufficient to sustain his family. In 1948 Szaton built a large, vaulted-ceiling garage studio behind his home and continued to work on art projects. In 1963 Szaton collaborated with artist Vachel Davis to reinterpret Davis's iconic 1946 painting ""American Coal Miner"" into a permanent, sculptural memorial to coal miners. Szaton's 7-ft. bronze statue, ""The Coal Miner"", is displayed on the lawn of the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. It was dedicated on October 16, 1964, and became his most widely known sculpture. A second ""The Coal Miner"" statue, cast in 1966, is installed on"
"Alexander Stirling Calder Alexander Stirling Calder (January 11, 1870 – January 7, 1945) was an American sculptor and teacher. Son of the sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and father of the sculptor Alexander (Sandy) Calder, his best-known works are ""George Washington as President"" on the Washington Square Arch in New York City, the Swann Memorial Fountain in Philadelphia, and the Leif Eriksson Memorial in Reykjavík, Iceland. Calder was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1870. At the age of 16, A. Stirling Calder attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under Thomas Eakins. He apprenticed as a sculptor the"
"skull was Schiller's. The city of Stuttgart erected in 1839 a statue in his memory on a square renamed Schillerplatz. A Schiller monument was unveiled on Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt in 1871. Friedrich Schiller, the German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist, statue on Belle Isle in Detroit Michigan. This statue of the German poet and playwright was commissioned by Detroit's German-American community in 1908 at a cost of $12,000; the designer was Herman Matzen. His image appeared on the German Democratic Republic 10 Mark banknotes of the 1964 emission. In September 2008, Schiller was voted by the audience of the TV channel"
"George Stanley (sculptor) George Maitland Stanley (April 26, 1903 – May 11, 1970) was an American sculptor. He designed the Academy Award of Merit, also known as the Oscar, as well as sculpting the Muse Statue at the Hollywood Bowl. Stanley was born in Iota, Acadia Parish, Louisiana in the year 1903. He then moved as a child to California and spent his youth there in the city of Watsonville. Upon graduation from high school Stanley proceeded to study sculpture at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles from 1923 to 1926. He also taught at this school from 1926-1942. Stanley"
"Statue of Leonard Peltier The statue of Leonard Peltier, American Indian Movement activist and long-term prisoner, was created by political artist Rigo 23. The piece is based on a self-portrait of Peltier and was created to raise awareness of Peltier's Native American activism, artistry, and his 41 years in prison. The statue stands nine feet tall and is made of redwood and some steel. It includes a base measuring six feet by nine feet, modeled to match the dimensions of a standard prison cell. Approved for placement on the grounds of the American University in Washington, D.C., in 2016, the"
"and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Norton Simon Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Glenkiln Sculpture Park, and the Saint Louis Art Museum. Saint John the Baptist (Rodin) Saint John the Baptist (preaching) is a bronze sculpture, by Auguste Rodin. After the controversy of his ""Age of Bronze"", Rodin began modeling the larger than life figure in 1877. He showed a plaster model at the Salon of 1880. Rodin described to how he was inspired to create this sculpture by an Italian peasant named Pignatelli. Reduced size examples were cast between 1878 and 1907."
"John A. Wilson (sculptor) John Albert Wilson (1877–1954) was a Canadian sculptor who produced public art for commissions throughout North America. He was a professor in the School of Architecture at Harvard University for 32 years. He is most famous for his American Civil War monuments: the Confederacy Statue (""Silent Sam"") in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the Washington Grays Monument (""Pennsylvania Volunteer"") in Philadelphia. Renowned sculptor and art historian Lorado Taft wrote of the latter work, ""No American sculpture, however, has surpassed the compelling power which John A. Wilson put into his steady, motionless 'Pennsylvania Volunteer'."" Wilson created his"
"States, with post-World War II statues installed mostly in the South and West. Because of the wide distribution of the statues, they were used in a 2009 study measuring the effects of air pollution over the last century. The Hiker (Kitson) The Hiker is a statue created by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson. It commemorates the American soldiers who fought in the Spanish–American War, the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine–American War. The first version of it was made for the University of Minnesota in 1906, but at least 50 copies were made, and were erected very widely across the United States."
"der Deutschen Kunst in Munich. In August 2015, this sculpture was rediscovered at the school yard of the boarding school ""Landschulheim Schloss Ising"" in Ising on Chiemsee, Bavaria. In 1961, Thorak's widow used the sculpture to pay tuition fees for her son's education at the school. Josef Thorak Josef Thorak (7 February 1889 in Salzburg, Austria – 26 February 1952 in Hartmannsberg, Bavaria) was an Austrian-German sculptor. He was well known for his ""grandiose monuments"". Thorak's reputation was established in 1922 when he created ""Der sterbende Krieger"" (The Dying Warrior), a statue memorializing the dead of World War I in"
"to find another home for the statue. Statue of Leonard Peltier The statue of Leonard Peltier, American Indian Movement activist and long-term prisoner, was created by political artist Rigo 23. The piece is based on a self-portrait of Peltier and was created to raise awareness of Peltier's Native American activism, artistry, and his 41 years in prison. The statue stands nine feet tall and is made of redwood and some steel. It includes a base measuring six feet by nine feet, modeled to match the dimensions of a standard prison cell. Approved for placement on the grounds of the American"
"""The Thinker""), to cast the clay compositions into plaster or bronze, and to carve his marbles. Rodin's major innovation was to capitalize on such multi-staged processes of 19th century sculpture and their reliance on plaster casting. Since clay deteriorates rapidly if not kept wet or fired into a terra-cotta, sculptors used plaster casts as a means of securing the composition they would make from the fugitive material that is clay. This was common practice amongst Rodin's contemporaries, and sculptors would exhibit plaster casts with the hopes that they would be commissioned to have the works made in a more permanent"
"Edmund Burke (Thomas) Edmund Burke is a bronze full length statue of Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher Edmund Burke by British artist James Havard Thomas. The original is in Bristol, England, with a second cast on Massachusetts Avenue at 11th and ""L"" Streets, NW, in Washington, D.C., United States. The full length sculpture of Burke depicts him stepping forward with his right leg. He is waving his right hand, and in his left hand he holds a three-cornered hat at his side. He wears a long jacket, a vest, and breeches. His hair curls up just above"
"Wercollier is his sculpture ""Altius"" (""Higher"")—a tribute to the sport of pole vaulting—which stands in the Olympic Sculpture Garden at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Among his best-known works are sculptures dealing with the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg during World War II. For example, his bronze ""The Political Prisoner"" stands at the National Monument to the Resistance and to the Deportation at the Notre-Dame cemetery in Luxembourg City and at the Notre-Dame cemetery in Limpertsberg. It is also exhibited at the National Resistance Museum in Esch-sur-Alzette. Lucien Wercollier also designed the sculpture that is given to recipients of the"
"areas in the last decennia, including pollution, corruption and education. Works of art and culture have a specific quality, which is their uniqueness. While other economic goods, such as crude oil or wheat are generic, interchangeable commodities (given a specific grade of the product), there is only one example of a famous painting such as the Mona Lisa, and only one example of Rodin's well-known sculpture ""The Thinker"". While copies or reproductions can be made of these works of art, and while many inexpensive posters of the Mona Lisa and small factory-made replicas of ""The Thinker"" are sold, neither full-size"
"""story-time"" with the artists, and outreach programs for school children, such as on-site bark painting. These interactive encounters are vital to the authenticity of the works. The sculptures that received the greatest amount of press and attention were two carvings in wood and pumice respectively that intentionally resemble Rodin sculptures displayed elsewhere on the Stanford campus, ""The Thinker"" and ""The Gates of Hell."" Both sculptures were carved by the two Iatmul men from Tambunum village. According to Simon, when he saw The Thinker in the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts on campus, he thought to himself,"