Rodin’s very first cast of the work retains an unexpected remnant of the original concept—a Florentine cap (or thinking cap, if you will). Left, Rodin’s The Thinker . Metropolitan Museum of Art.

While Rodin failed to complete the gates before his death in 1917, he did finish The Thinker.Presented at the Salon des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1904, the bronze statue — of a muscular man seated ...

Columnist Justice B. Hill has a deepened appreciation for Rodin's The Thinker after seeing an undamaged version of the sculpture in Copenhagen. The version that sits outside the Cleveland Museum ...

In August 1927, crews moved the statue of Rodin's "The Thinker" from the former Art Museum to its present home at the "new" Detroit Institute of Arts.

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917), The Thinker, large version, modeled 1903, cast by Alexis Rudier 1928, bronze, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Jacob Epstein Collection, 1930.25.1 You might know ...

The Rodin Museum's garden bar pop-up is back for another summer starting on Friday, May 24. Admission is free to the outdoor space, which includes castings of Rodin's "The Thinker" and "The Gates ...