List of The Thinker sculptures

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The Thinker in front of Philosophy Hall at Columbia University
The Thinker in front of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia

This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker, originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, exists in several versions. The original size and the later monumental size versions were both created by Rodin, and the most valuable versions are those created under his supervision. There was also a limited edition of 12 copies made from the original plaster mold by the Musée Rodin after Rodin's death.

The Thinker exists as bronze casts, exhibition plaster casts (some were painted to look like bronze patina), and original production plasters, which some consider art objects today.

Copies of The Thinker made during Rodin's lifetime

Vandals damaged The Thinker at the Cleveland Museum of Art. It remains unrepaired. According to police, the perpetrators were a faction of the Weathermen, possibly the same individuals killed in a bomb-making accident in New York City[1] No one was ever charged.[2]
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The Thinker at the Cantor Arts Center of Stanford University
Location Size Material Date Notes References
National Gallery of Victoria Original Bronze 1884 Earliest bronze casting, has Florentine cap [3]
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva) Original Bronze 1896 [4]
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Original Bronze 1901 [5]
Destroyed Monumental Plaster, bronze-tinted 1904 Earliest monumental, displayed outside Paris Pantheon, destroyed January 1905 by madman [6]
University of Louisville Monumental Bronze 1903 First casting by A. A. Hébrard, lost wax technique, displayed at Louisiana Purchase Exposition [6][7]
Detroit Institute of Arts Monumental Bronze 1903 First casting by Alexis Rudier, sand casting, four days younger than Louisville copy,
publicly displayed at Leipzig and Berlin		 [8]
Metropolitan Museum, New York Monumental Plaster, bronze-tinted 1904 Sent to Louisiana Purchase Exhibition to replace the bronze version [6]
Musée Rodin Monumental Bronze 1904 Installed outside Paris Panthéon in 1906, moved to Musée Rodin garden in 1922 [9]
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Monumental Bronze 1904 the "third Hébrard copy" [1][6]
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Monumental Plaster 1904 acquired by museum in October 1904 [6]
National Museum, Poznań Monumental Plaster 1904 acquired in January 1905 [6][10]
Legion of Honor, San Francisco Monumental Bronze 1904 Alexis Rudier cast, purchased in 1915, donated to San Francisco in 1922 [11]
Private collection Original Bronze 1906 made for Ralph Pulitzer, sold for $15.3 million in 2013 [12]
Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Monumental Plaster 1907 exhibited in Strasbourg in 1907 before museum's purchase [13]
Ca' Pesaro, Venice Monumental Plaster, bronze-tinted 1907 purchased at the 1907 Biennale [14]
Congressional Plaza, Buenos Aires Monumental Bronze 1907 Purchased by the museum director to Auguste Rodin, one of the three sculptures cast in the original mold and signed by him [15][16][17]
Waldemarsudde, Sweden Monumental Bronze 1908 Alexis Rudier cast, for Prince Eugen of Norway and Sweden [18]
Private collection Original Bronze 1916 sold for $11.8 million in 2010 [19][20]
Rodin's tomb, Meudon Monumental Bronze 1916 Alexis Rudier cast, placed at the grave when his wife died [6]
Cleveland Museum of Art Monumental Bronze 1916 Alexis Rudier cast, purchased 1916, badly damaged by vandalism in 1970, displayed in an unrepaired state [1][2][21]
Musée Rodin at Meudon Monumental Plaster, bronze-tinted 1916 the museum has several plaster casts in different sizes and of different ages [22]

Later casts

Europe

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Laeken Cemetery, Belgium

North America

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Copy of The Thinker in The Thinker Sculpture Court, Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan

South America

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The Thinker in the Congressional Plaza in Buenos Aires.

Asia

Europe

North America

File:Thinker, Cleveland.jpg
Damaged Thinker in Cleveland, Ohio

South America

References

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  18. ↑ Auguste Rodin, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde
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  24. ↑ "Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco List of Thinkers, Accessed January 2014
  25. ↑ Browse by Title - Norton Simon Museum
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  32. ↑ "List of works at Rodin wing", Shizuoka Prefectural Art Museum. Accessed 20 March 2013.
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  34. ↑ Auguste Rodin, The Thinker
  35. ↑ MacLaren Art Centre - Media Releases - The Thinker Reviewed
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  37. ↑ City of Goldendale - Arts & Culture
  38. ↑ Auguste Rodin — The Thinker
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