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June 21, 2012
Bernard Barryte and Roberta K. Tarbell, eds. Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation 1876–1936 Exh. cat. Stanford, CA: Cantor Arts Center in association with Silvana Editoriale, 2011. 381 pp.; 200 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Paper $55.00 (9788836620005)

Exhibition schedule: Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, October 5, 2011–January 1, 2012

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2012.69

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Walter Florian. Auguste Rodin, Sculptor (1904). Oil on canvas. 31 7/8 x 25 5/8 inches. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of Dorothy and William Becker in Memory of Henry Davega, 1983.29.

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The need for an investigation of Auguste Rodin’s influence on American artists was spawned at the 2002 symposium, “New Studies on Rodin,” held on the occasion of the publication of Albert Elsen’s monumental catalogue of Stanford’s Rodin Collection. How did American artists adopt, adapt, or reject Rodin’s art? What were the attributes in their work that reflected the master’s oeuvre? Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center was the ideal place for this study, with the third largest...