Cantor Arts Center
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Cantor Arts Center is an art museum on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, United States.
Historic facade and main entrance.
Leland Stanford (1881) by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.
The Thinker by Rodin in the rotunda of the new wing.
Athena, by 19th century Italian sculptor Antonio Frilli, presides over the marble vestibule.
Auguste Rodin
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François Auguste René Rodin was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a
Cantor Arts Center
…over 130,000 sq ft (12,000 m2) of exhibition space, including sculpture gardens. The Cantor Arts Center houses the largest collection of sculptures by Auguste Rodin outside of Paris and the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, with 199 works, most in bronze but others in different media. In 2024, the Cantor was ranked…
Portrait photograph by George Charles Beresford, 1902
Rodin c. 1862
Auguste Rodin, John Singer Sargent, 1884
Rodin, c. 1875–80