Rodin Museum
39°57′43″N 75°10′26″W / 39.962°N 75.174°W / 39.962; -75.174
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Established | November 29, 1929 (1929-11-29) |
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Location | 2151 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Coordinates | 39°57′43″N 75°10′26″W / 39.962°N 75.174°W / 39.962; -75.174 |
Type | Art museum |
Collections | Sculpture |
Collection size | 150 objects (bronzes, marbles, and plasters) |
Founder | Jules Mastbaum |
Architect | Paul Cret Jacques Gréber |
Public transit access | SEPTA bus: 7, 32, 38, 48, 49 Philly PHLASH; Suburban Station |
Website | www |
The Rodin Museum is an art museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that contains one of the largest collections of sculptor Auguste Rodin's works outside Paris. Opened in 1929, the museum is administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The museum houses a collection of nearly 150 objects containing bronzes, marbles, and plasters by Rodin.[1]
In 2012, the museum re-opened after a three-year, $9 million renovation that brought the museum back to its original vision of displaying Rodin's works.[2][3]
History
The museum was a gift of movie-theatre magnate Jules Mastbaum (1872–1926) to the city of Philadelphia. Mastbaum began collecting works by Rodin in 1923 with the intent of founding a museum. Within three years, he assembled the largest collection of Rodin's works outside Paris, including bronze castings, plaster studies, drawings, prints, letters, and books.
In 1926, Mastbaum commissioned French architects Paul Cret and Jacques Gréber to design the museum building and gardens. He died before the museum was complete, but his widow, Etta Wedell Mastbaum honored his commitment and the Museum opened on November 29, 1929. Murals in the museum were executed by the painter Franklin C. Watkins.
Collection
The best-known of Rodin's works, The Thinker (1880–1882), sits outside the museum in the entry courtyard. Visitors once entered through a cast of The Gates of Hell, located at the main entrance to the museum, which is no longer used. This massive 5.5-m-tall bronze doorway was originally created for the Museum of Decorative Arts (which was to have been located in Paris but never came into existence). Rodin sculpted more than 100 figures for these doors from 1880 until his death in 1917. This casting is one of the three originals; several others have been made since. Several of his most famous works, including The Thinker, are actually studies for these doors which were later expanded into separate works.
The museum's several rooms house many more of the artist's works, including The Kiss (1886), Eternal Springtime (1884), The Age of Bronze (1875–76), and The Burghers of Calais, a monument commissioned by the City of Calais in 1884.
In 2019, the Rodin museum mounted a two-year[4] special exhibition titled Rethinking the Modern Monument, curated by Alexander Kauffman, which paired 16 works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art with selected Rodin sculptures.[5] The special exhibition featured bronze sculptures by Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth, Jacques Lipchitz, Marino Marini, Chana Orloff, and Alberto Giacometti, among others.[6]
Image gallery
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- The Colossal Head of Balzac
- Bacchus in the Vat
See also
References
- ^ "Rodin Museum: The Collection". www.rodinmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ^ "BBC News - Rodin Museum re-opens after three years of work". BBC News. 17 May 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
- ^ The Associated Press. "Rodin Museum in Philadelphia to reopen in July". seattlepi.com. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
- ^ Crimmins, Peter (February 7, 2019). "Rodin's radical public monuments on display in Philadelphia". WHYY. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ^ "Rodin Museum's Garden Bar returns with a groundbreaking exhibit | 6abc Loves the Arts". 6abc Philadelphia. August 4, 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ^ "'Rethinking the Modern Monument' at The Rodin Museum". ArtfixDaily. February 4, 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
External links
- Official website
- Listing at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
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- List of sculptures
- Man with the Broken Nose (1863)
- Alsatian Orphan (1871)
- Suzon (1872–73)
- The Age of Bronze (1876)
- La Defense (1879)
- The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (1880)
- The Shade (1880)
- The Gates of Hell (1880/1917)
- The Thinker (1880, locations)
- Adam (1880–81)
- Eve (1881)
- Crouching Woman (1880–1882)
- Saint John the Baptist (1880/1907)
- Ugolino and His Sons (1881)
- The Kiss (1882)
- I Am Beautiful (1882)
- The Falling Man (1882)
- Jules Dalou (1883)
- Bust of Maurice Haquette (1883)
- Bust of Victor Hugo (1883)
- Eternal Springtime (1884)
- Torso of Adele (c. 1884)
- The Burghers of Calais (1884–1889)
- Head of Camille Claudel (1884/1911)
- The Prodigal Son (1885)
- Mask of a Weeping Woman (1885)
- The Martyr (1885)
- Psyche Looking at Love (1885)
- Eustache de Saint Pierre (1885–86)
- Jean d'Aire (1885–86)
- Jean de Fiennes (1885–86)
- Avarice and Lust (1885–1887)
- Damned Women (1885–1890)
- The Old Tree (1885)
- Paolo and Francesca (1885)
- Young Mother (1885)
- Young Mother in the Grotto (1885)
- Young Woman with a Serpent (c. 1885)
- The Three Shades (1886)
- Meditation (1886)
- Fugitive Love (1886–87)
- Ovid's Metamorphoses (1886–1889)
- Pierre de Wiessant (1887)
- Head of Saint John the Baptist (1887)
- The Sirens (1887)
- Polyphemus (1888)
- Standing Mercury (1888)
- The Kneeling Man (1888)
- Adonis Awakens (1889)
- Andromeda (1889)
- Glaucus (1889)
- Kneeling Female Faun (1889)
- The Succubus (1889)
- Despair (c. 1890)
- Brother and Sister (1890)
- Danaid (1890)
- Cybele (1890/1904)
- Monument to Balzac (1892–1897)
- Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk (1892)
- Youth Triumphant (c. 1894)
- Octave Mirdeau (1895)
- Iris, Messenger of the Gods (c. 1895)
- Bacchantes Embracing (c. 1896)
- The Spirit of Eternal Repose (1898–99)
- Illusions Received by the Earth (pre-1900)
- The Athlete (1901–1904)
- The Death of Adonis (1903–1906)
- Adam and Eve (1905)
- The Walking Man (1907)
- The Cathedral (1908)
- The Prayer (1909)
- Standing Female Faun (1910)
- Musée Rodin (Hôtel Biron), Paris
- Rodin Museum, Philadelphia
- Museu Rodin Bahia, Salvador
- Plateau (closed)
- 1888–89 Claudel bust
- 1909 Bourdelle bust
- Rodin — The Thinker (1902 photograph)
- Camille Claudel (1988 film)
- Camille Claudel (2003 musical)
- Camille Claudel 1915 (2013 film)
- Rodin (2017 film)
- Rodin (crater)
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