Rodin: A Magnificient Obsession, Sculpture from the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation

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
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."