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The most recent version of the Foundation’s large survey exhibition, Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, was a retrospective of the artist’s career and included more than sixty bronzes, from small studies to monumental works. It represented the sculptor’s major projects and innovations – such as The Gates of Hell, The Monument to the Burghers of Calais, and Monument to Balzac. The exhibition spanned the length of Rodin’s career from his early bust of his father to his late studies of dancing figures. It included many of his most admired pieces: The Thinker, The Three Shades, The Kiss, Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose, The Age of Bronze, Saint John the Baptist Preaching, and The Cathedral.
In addition to bronzes, the exhibition included works on paper, portraits of the artist by other sculptors and photographers, and an educational model that demonstrated the complexities of the lost-wax process, Rodin’s favored method of casting bronzes.
Lousiana State University Museum of Art
The exhibition visited twenty-six museums in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Singapore:
| Utah Museum of Fine Arts Salt Lake City, Utah May 20, 2001 – September 2, 2001 |
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada February 26, 2005 – May 22, 2005 |
| Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth, Australia October 4, 2001 – December 5, 2001 |
Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada June 18, 2005 – September 18, 2005 |
| National Gallery of Australia Canberra, Australia December 14, 2001 – February 24, 2002 |
Albany Institute of History and Art Albany, New York October 15, 2005 – January 1, 2006 |
| McClelland Gallery Langwarrin (Melbourne), Australia March 10, 2002 – May 19, 2002 |
Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art Hartford, Connecticut January 28, 2006 – April 30, 2006 |
| Singapore Art Museum Singapore June 5, 2002 – August 25, 2002 |
Beaverbrook Art Gallery Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada May 27, 2006 – September 4, 2006 |
| Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota, Florida October 11, 2002 – January 5, 2003 |
Winnipeg Art Gallery Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada September 28, 2006 – January 14, 2007 |
| Akron Art Museum Akron, Ohio January 25, 2003 – May 18, 2003 |
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Victoria, British Columbia, Canada April 6, 2007 – July 29, 2007 |
| Sioux City Art Center Sioux City, Iowa June 7, 2003 – August 31, 2003 |
William Benton Museum of Art
University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut
September 7, 2007 – December 16, 2007 |
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University Art Museum
University of Louisiana
Lafayette, Louisiana
September 20, 2003 – January 4, 2004 |
Mobile Museum of Art Mobile, Alabama January 25, 2008 – March 23, 2008 |
| Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa, Oklahoma January 25, 2004 – March 28, 2004 |
Plains Art Museum Fargo, North Dakota April 17, 2008 – July 13, 2008 |
| Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York April 17, 2004 – July 3, 2004 |
Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville, Tennessee September 12, 2008 – January 4, 2009 |
| Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Utica, New York July 24, 2004 – October 3, 2004 |
Louisiana State University Museum of Art Baton Rouge, Louisiana January 24, 2009 – April 19, 2009 |
| Glenbow Museum Calgary, Alberta, Canada October 30, 2004 – January 30, 2005 |
Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science Sioux Falls, South Dakota May 9, 2009 – August 9, 2009 |
“…My most heartfelt thank you to the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation for allowing the Rodin exhibit to be displayed here…. Viewing the pieces in the collection was one of the most spiritual experiences I have ever had. I wept.”