Show The Thinker The statue The Thinker Is s b by Auguste Rodin the greatest of French sculptors Ills His original idea was to employ the figure above a museum doorway he had been commissioned commissioned com corn to make and a study which had this use in view was displayed dis played in Paris in 1889 But Dut he did not use It for that purpose and the I huge bronze The Thinker was not exhibited until 1004 in Paris Soon I afterward it was shown In plaster atI atthe at atthe I the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St St. Louis Tills This plaster figure isnow is isnow isnow now in the Metropolitan museum In New York There are several bronze casts in this country Including country including theone theone the theone one at the entrance of the Cleveland Museum of Art another in Detroit and a third in Golden Gate park San Francisco The first cast of The Thinker is at the Rodin museum mu mu- seum scum in Paris Rodin was born in 1840 and died November ember 17 1917 n. n |