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Landmark: Rodin Museum
North side of the Parkway between 21st and 22nd. On the Parkway and Pennsylvania tour.
The Age of Bronze
Auguste Rodin,
1877 (cast 1925)
* standing person
* West side of the front wall.
Rodin Museum.
* 39.961875,-75.174050 [map] [nearby]
* See also:
+rodinmuseum.org's page for this piece
+wikipedia.org's The Age of Bronze page
+bronze-gallery.com's Auguste Rodin page
Adam
Auguste Rodin,
1880 - 1881 (cast 1925)
* Statue of Adam
* standing person
* West side of the gateway wall.
Rodin Museum.
* 39.961675,-75.174500 [map] [nearby]
* See also:
+rodinmuseum.org entry for this piece
+bronze-gallery.com's Auguste Rodin page
+wikipedia.org's Adam page
The Gates of Hell
Auguste Rodin,
1880 - 1917 (cast 1926-1928, installed 1929)
* groups of people,
partial,
standing,
sitting, kneeling, crouching, and horizontal,
furniture,
rocks
* Entrance.
Rodin Museum.
* 39.961850,-75.174050 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Religious
* See also:
+associationforpublicart.org's page for this piece
+bronze-gallery.com's Auguste Rodin page
Eve
Auguste Rodin,
1881 (cast 1925)
* Statue of Eve
* standing person
* East side of the front wall.
Rodin Museum.
* 39.961775,-75.173950 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Religious
* See also:
+rodinmuseum.org's page for this piece
+bronze-gallery.com's Auguste Rodin page
+wikipedia.org's Eve page
The Shade
Auguste Rodin,
1881 - 1904 (cast 1923)
* standing person
* East side of the gateway wall.
Rodin Museum.
* 39.961525,-75.174300 [map] [nearby]
* See also:
+rodinmuseum.org's entry for this piece
+bronze-gallery.com's Auguste Rodin page
The Burghers of Calais
Auguste Rodin,
1884 - 1895 (cast 1925)
* group of people
standing
* moved outside 2011
* East side of the Rodin Museum.
* 39.961800,-75.173750 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Moved
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's The Burghers of Calais page
+a picture of this piece at commons.wikimedia.org
+bronze-gallery.com's Auguste Rodin page
The Three Shades
Auguste Rodin,
1886 (enlarged 1904, cast 1983)
* three men
standing
* West side of the Rodin Museum.
* 39.962050,-75.174150 [map] [nearby]
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's The Three Shades page
+Wally Gobetz's picture of this piece at flickr.com
+bronze-gallery.com's Auguste Rodin page
The Thinker
Auguste Rodin,
1904 (cast 1919, installed 1929)
* seated person
* In front of the Rodin Museum.
* 39.961510,-75.174535 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Favorites
* See also:
+associationforpublicart.org's page for this piece
+bronze-gallery.com's Auguste Rodin page
Rodin Museum Gateway
Pierre Bullet (Architect),
Conkling-Armstrong Terra Cotta Company,
Paul Philippe Cret (Architect),
1928
* seated and reclining
people
(cherubs,
unfinished headless person),
head scarf,
scales and other tools,
plants,
musical instrument
* philadelphiabuildings.org lists both Conkling-Armstrong and Benedict Stone Corp. as being involved in the construction of the building. Conkling-Armstrong seems the more likely to have done the detail for this piece.
* inscription:
This architectural fragment is a reproduction
of parts of the old Chateau Dissy
re-erected by Auguste Rodin at Meudon, France
near the studio where most of his work was done.
This replica of the Rodin Memorial
at Meudon was chosen by Jules E. Mastbaum
for the gateway to the Museum.
* Entrance.
Rodin Museum.
* 39.961600,-75.174400 [map] [nearby]
* See also:
+philadelphiabuildings.org's page for the building
+wikipedia.org's Chateau d'Issy page
+wikipedia.org's Pierre Bullet page
+philadelphiabuildings.org's Conkling-Armstrong Terra Cotta Company page
+wikipedia.org's Paul Philippe Cret page
Rodin Museum Fountain
Paul Philippe Cret (Architect),
1929
* small
head,
fountain
* In front of the Rodin Museum.
* 39.961750,-75.174150 [map] [nearby]
* See also:
+Daniel Berek's picture of this piece at flickr.com
+strayolive's picture of this piece at flickr.com
+wikipedia.org's Paul Philippe Cret page
