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The Thinker was originally conceived not in heroic isolation, but as part of Rodin’s monumental Gates of Hell —a pair of bronze doors intended for a museum of decorative arts in Paris. Although the doors were never cast during the sculptor’s lifetime, they nevertheless provided Rodin a rich source of ideas for individual figures and groups that he worked and reworked for the rest of his career.
Vienna, 1953: 27-28. 1963 Elsen, Albert E. Rodin. New York, 1963: 52-54.

Nineteenth-century viewers and critics were immediately taken with Rodin’s three-dimensional group, entitled Paolo and Francesca , the passionate lovers from the fifth canto of Dante’s Inferno . When one enthusiastic critic referred to it as The Kiss , the new title stuck, and the association with Dante’s ill-fated lovers gave way to a more contemporary, universal response to their passionate embrace.
London, 1959: 224-226. 1963 Elsen, Albert E. Rodin.

Bibliography 1971 Elsen/Varnedoe 1971, fig.85.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1946: no. 20. 1971 Elsen/Varnedoe 1971, fig

Bibliography 1971 Elsen/Varnedoe 1971, fig.80 (as c.1900-05). 2022 Le Normand-Romain

Never associated with any specific art movement, Lamar Dodd was a southern painter who worked in various styles throughout his long career. This depiction of Athens, where Dodd lived and taught at the University of Georgia, was influenced by the urban realism of the Ashcan school as well as the regionalist movements of the 1930s.
Athens 2, no. 4 (Fall 1970): 23, repro. 1971 Elsen, Patricia, ed.

Washington, 1968: 147, repro. 1969 Elsen, Albert E.

Auguste Rodin was born in 1840, the second child and only son of Jean-Baptiste Rodin and Marie Cheffer, first-generation Parisians of modest means. Nothing in his family background or situation suggested that he might become an artist.
Paris, 1936. 1963 Elsen, Albert E. Rodin.

Elsen, ed., Rodin Rediscovered [exh. cat., National Gallery of Art] (Washington,

He came from a family of artists, but little else is known of his early life and
He came from a family of artists, but little else is known of his early life and