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Three Girls IX (The Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
we should also think of the metaphoric contents of the word apparition. There is certainly a spectre
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Three Girls VI (The Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
we should also think of the metaphoric contents of the word apparition. There is certainly a spectre
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper

Welcome to the Jungle - Contemporary Photography - Orangutan
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
fact, totally a result of good fortune: we just find it affirming to think otherwise. I took this
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

First, the fish must be caught
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
are about these specific objects, yet they also invite reverie or recollections. I like to think that
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

"In the Andalusian Desert" Oil Painting
By Ulrich Gleiter
Located in Denver, CO
often think about the history of an area where I am painting, about how many troubles and beautiful
Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Tipping the Scales, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Amy Bernays
Located in Yardley, PA
a little tipping the scales I think. The instincts of little boys and politicians alike :: Painting
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Randal Ford - Chimpanzee No. 2 (BW), Photography 2018, Printed After
By Randal Ford
Located in Stamford, CT
happy to pose for us. This shot in particular was inspired by the famous Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Randal Ford - Chimpanzee No. 2, Photography 2018, Printed After
By Randal Ford
Located in Stamford, CT
happy to pose for us. This shot in particular was inspired by the famous Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Strange Math (The Princess and her Lover)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
think that the 150,000 dollars I am going to get in 25 minutes from the man I only know as phone number
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Randal Ford - Chimpanzee No. 1, Photography 2018, Printed After
By Randal Ford
Located in Stamford, CT
happy to pose for us. This shot in particular was inspired by the famous Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Boy playing the violin - Contemporary Oil Painting, Colorful, Figurative
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
, because I’ve always been fascinated by the way people are. The way they think. The way they look. The way
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Under Water (The Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
we should also think of the metaphoric contents of the word apparition. There is certainly a spectre
Category

1990s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

The Secret Garden (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
, I think it's a time for art to lift us above it. These paintings are created in six to eight stages
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Lacquer, Charcoal, House Paint, Oil, Acrylic

WOMEN OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES Large Photo NETA
By Ashkan Sahihi
Located in Surfside, FL
the viewer to feel and think about entirely new things. Although he constantly challenges the comfort
Category

Early 2000s Portrait Photography

Materials

Masonite

Johnny Friedlaender, The Birds, from XXe Siecle, 1973
By Johnny Friedlaender
Located in Southampton, NY
greatest painters, sculptors, printmakers, writers, and cultural thinkers of the 20th century. San Lazzaro
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Large Color Photograph "Women of the IDF" Ashkan Sahihi
By Ashkan Sahihi
Located in Surfside, FL
the viewer to feel and think about entirely new things. Although he constantly challenges the comfort
Category

Early 2000s Portrait Photography

Materials

Laminate, Masonite

The Italian Girl, Oil on Canvas, 1924
By Charles Picart le Doux
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
gallery and participated with Jules Romains and their friends in the election of the "prince of thinkers
Category

1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Little Prince. figurative, horizontal, oil pastel, Autumnal landscapes
Located in Oslo, NO
century by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince". I think there is no person who did not read this
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel

Large Oil Painting Titled: The People’s Princess 76 x 76
By Christina Major
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Words in painting: I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Letter by Carlo Belli to the Countess Pecci Blunt - 1966
Located in Roma, IT
, coupled with his passion for ancient history and archeology, that will lead him in 1960 to think about the
Category

1960s More Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Sitting in Front of the Hallway Mirror
Located in Atlanta, GA
think of these as a backdrop to something that I find visually compelling. My goal is that the work is
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Wellspring II - Large Contemporary Abstract Colorful Geometric Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
and all the distractions and what we think we’re feeling and what we should be feeling versus whatever
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

The Wellspring - Abstract Contemporary Dynamic Expressive Colorful Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
distractions and what we think we’re feeling and what we should be feeling versus whatever is actually going on
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"The Mother", Figurative, Woodcut, Hand Dyed Paper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
handle that turns the heavy gears and think of the other hands that made the patina. By working
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Dye, Ink, Woodcut

Untitled - Renegade (The Last Stand) - analog, vintage print
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
, to relive and reinterpret, over and over again, the memories we think define us. Schneider’s images
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: The Handmaid s Tale" by Margaret Atwood
By Valerie Huhn
Located in New York, NY
a novel.  On my new medication, my ability and joy in reading was back. The experience made me think
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

The White Elephant Saloon, Texas by David Yarrow
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
qualification rules, and we need some stronger filters. For a start, we think that the saloon must have hard
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Pliny, Gaius Secundus: HISTORIE OF THE WORLD
Located in Middletown, NY
compiler rather than an original thinker, and the importance of this book depends more on his exhaustive
Category

Antique Early 17th Century English Books

Materials

Leather, Paper

Save the Savior - Large Oversized Affordable Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
artworks. "It’s so easy to get caught up in the material world and all the distractions and what we think
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"No!" Says the Signified" Silkscreen Lithograph, Signed proof, Gagosian artist
By Shusaku Arakawa
Located in New York, NY
propositions. Jean-Francois Lyotard has said of Arakawa’s work that it “makes us think through the eyes,” and
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Screen

German Contemporary Art by Albrecht Behmel - The Fall
Located in Paris, IDF
old things. His art ist about the beauty of details and the connection between contents. Think of his
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Acrylic

The River Styx, Painting, Acrylic on Other
By Amy Bernays
Located in Yardley, PA
pictures about war and weapons, I don't know if the politicians think about it either. It is my mothering
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Clemente Untitled B: surreal mythical landscape, voyage with ocean, Venus, snake
By Francesco Clemente
Located in New York, NY
up for Noah's ark. Four figures stand above them in a row, assuming the pose of Rodin's The Thinker
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Lost on the Range", Portrait Art Painting, 2020
By Addison Jones
Located in Delaware , OH
to make it feel as natural as possible. When I am shooting, I don’t really think about what the art
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Ink, Acrylic

If this IS the world at all
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
are about these specific objects, yet they also invite reverie or recollections. I like to think that
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

"At Sunrise in the Mountains" Oil Painting
By Ulrich Gleiter
Located in Denver, CO
. Today, he says, “I often think about the history of an area where I am painting, about how many troubles
Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Passing Ships in the Night, Oil Painting
By David Shepherd
Located in San Francisco, CA
complexity in the work and demonstrating the artist’s breadth of skills. “I think in the future we will be
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Georgian Contemporary Art by Mariam Odishvili - The Game
Located in Paris, IDF
-Think the Future at Tbilisi History Museum in Georgia the same year.
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Cortijo in the Sierra Alhamilla" Oil Painting
By Ulrich Gleiter
Located in Denver, CO
of man-made problems. Today, he says, “I often think about the history of an area where I am painting
Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

The Connaught Bar Cocktail Recipes and Iconic Creations
Located in New York, NY
‘When I think about the Connaught Bar, I return again and again to the hospitality, the methodology
Category

2010s Chinese Books

Materials

Paper

Original Painting "The Doolins" by Ron Crooks
By Ron Crooks
Located in Coeur d Alene, ID
. "I picked Western subjects because they let the artist use landscape, people, storytelling…I think
Category

Late 20th Century American Paintings

Materials

Paint

The Down Crown Crew. Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
creativity. Think the Elgin Marbles in a 21st century mega city environment. Oil and acrylic on canvas
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

"Judge Abbey and the Four Elves" Magazine Story Illustration
By Coby Whitmore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Ladies’ Home Journal, published October 1948 The full caption reads: "'You'd think,' the judge exploded
Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

California After the Rains, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
By Daniel Clarke
Located in Yardley, PA
again. So don’t ask me how old I am today since my stomach is tied in boy scouts knots as I think
Category

2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

"Alley up to the castle (Redondo, Portugal)" Oil painting
By Ulrich Gleiter
Located in Denver, CO
. Today, he says, “I often think about the history of an area where I am painting, about how many troubles
Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

3D Painting of Wolf: The Hunter XXXIX
By Juan Miguel Palacios
Located in New York, NY
to be an extremely ugly society.” “Words with which the prestigious American thinker and linguist
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

"The Road to our Cabin" Oil painting
By Ulrich Gleiter
Located in Denver, CO
inspiring capacity to rise above the ins-and-outs of man-made problems. Today, he says, “I often think about
Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

3D Portrait of Woman: The Wanders I
By Juan Miguel Palacios
Located in New York, NY
to be an extremely ugly society.” “Words with which the prestigious American thinker and linguist
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

3D Painting of Wolf: The Hunter XIII
By Juan Miguel Palacios
Located in New York, NY
to be an extremely ugly society.” “Words with which the prestigious American thinker and linguist
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Abraham Rattner, The Fire, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1937
By Abraham Rattner
Located in Southampton, NY
philosophy, Verve featured original lithographs and writings by the most important artists and thinkers of
Category

1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

3D Painting of Wolf: The Hunter XVII
By Juan Miguel Palacios
Located in New York, NY
to be an extremely ugly society.” “Words with which the prestigious American thinker and linguist
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

3D Painting of Wolf: The Hunter XXIX
By Juan Miguel Palacios
Located in New York, NY
to be an extremely ugly society.” “Words with which the prestigious American thinker and linguist
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

The Painted Flag (1981) - figurative, contemporary, acrylic on canvas
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
. Eighteen years later in 1980, I began to think about commemorating the adoption of the new flag and I
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Panel

"The Central Square of Ravières" Oil painting
By Ulrich Gleiter
Located in Denver, CO
of man-made problems. Today, he says, “I often think about the history of an area where I am painting
Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

M from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Udo Kier
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
memories we think define us. Schneider’s images are time capsules, not of fixed moments, but of the way
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Close Encounter of the Third Kind (Fairytales) - Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
and over again, the memories we think define us. Schneider’s images are time capsules, not of fixed
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Fingerprint book Sculpture: "Against the Loveless World" by Susan Abulhawa
By Valerie Huhn
Located in New York, NY
ability and joy in reading was back. The experience made me think about the history of reading, writing
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

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Questions About The Thinker
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 16, 2024
    The Thinker statue is supposed to be Dante Alighieri. Born in Florence, Italy, in 1265, he was a poet and philosopher. Today, he is best known as the author of The Divine Comedy. Through his statue of Dante, Auguste Rodin intended to portray the writer gazing down into the circles of Hell as part of a larger work called The Gates of Hell. Find a diverse assortment of Auguste Rodin art on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 26, 2024
    The "real" or original Rodin Thinker is outside the Musée Rodin in Paris, France. There are more than 25 additional castings of the sculpture located around the world. In the U.S., you can see casts of The Thinker at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky; the Detroit Institute of Art in Detroit, Michigan; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York; the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, California; and the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. On 1stDibs, shop an assortment of Auguste Rodin art.