Auguste rodin biography summary graphic organizer
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Exhibition dates: 1st August – 1st November 2010
A huge posting of wonderful photographs!
Many thankx to the Museum of Modern Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958)
Rubber Dummies, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Hollywood
1939
Gelatin silver print
7 9/16 x 9 5/8″ (19.3 x 24.4cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Edward Steichen
© 1981 Collection Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents
David Goldblatt (South African, 1930-2018)
Monument to Karel Landman, Voortrekker Leader, De Kol, Eastern Cape
April 10, 1993
Gelatin silver print
10 15/16 x 13 11/16″ (27.9 x 34.8cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase
© 2010 David Goldblatt. Courtesy David Goldblatt and the Goodman Gallery
Eugène Atget (French, 1857-1927)
Saint-Cloud
1923
Albumen silver print
6 7/8 x 8 3/8″ (17.5 x 21.3cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Anonymous gift
Edward Steichen (American born Luxembourg, 1879-1973)
Midnight – Rodin’s Balzac
1908
Pigment print
12 1/8 x 14 5/8″ (30.8 x 37.1cm)
The Museu
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Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
June 18–September 18, 2022
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
October 21, 2022–January 15, 2023
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, ed.,
Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern.
Williamstown, MA: Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2022.
260 pp.; 210 color and b&w illus.; bibliography; chronology, notes & references; index.
$60.00 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978–1–935998–51–8 (Clark Art Institute)
ISBN: 9780300264067 (Yale University Press)
So secure is Rodin’s place in the canon of nineteenth-century art—and so embedded are The Thinker (original model 1881–82, enlarged 1903) and The Kiss (original model ca. 1881–82) in popular culture—that an occasion to consider an unfamiliar aspect of his celebrity is welcome. Such is provided by Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern, an exhibition of fifty sculptures and twenty-five drawings with venues at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. A number of items on the checklist are restricted to one location; what follows pertains to the installation at the Clark. Addressing the appetite in the United States for