Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Cleveland Museum of Art is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Located in the Wade Park District of University Circle, the museum is internationally renowned for its substantial holdi
Cleveland Museum of Art
View of the museum from the steps of the Euclid Avenue entrance to Wade Park, overlooking the Lagoon. Seen in the foreground is Frank Jirouch's 1928 bronze sculpture, Night Passing the Earth to Day.
Northern entrance, showing the 1971 addition designed by Marcel Breuer
Inside the museum's atrium, which opened in 2012
The Thinker
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The Thinker, by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture depicting a nude male figure of heroic size, seated on a large rock, leaning forward, his right elbow placed upon his left thigh, with the back of
Cleveland Museum of Art
…Frank Jirouch, Night Passing the Earth to Day, which sits across Wade Lagoon from the museum, near the park's entrance on Euclid Avenue. Auguste Rodin's The Thinker is installed at the top of the museum's main staircase. After being partially destroyed in a 1970 bombing (allegedly by the Weathermen), the statue was…
The Thinker
The Thinker in The Gates of Hell at the Musée Rodin
Le Penseur (1904) in the Musée Rodin, Paris
Rodin's model, the boxer Jean Baud