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The Tetons (B&W)
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
overload as there is at any airport in America. When I think about the town of Jackson, I find it
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Waiting Game
Located in Los Angeles, CA
numbers. They work the same jobs, in a town that Chang thinks has “all the ingredients of a great city
Category

1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Push West
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
selling wildlife photographer. "I think one of the reasons that the Final Frontier holds such a
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The philosopher s study
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

The Good Life
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
. Ballard says, “I always have this inner voice that dictates what I do and how I think.” The concept of the
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

For the Dream
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
. When I create a brushstroke I think of the motion of water in a stream or the movement of a breeze. My
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Sumi Ink, Archival Pigment

The Push West
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
selling wildlife photographer. "I think one of the reasons that the Final Frontier holds such a
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Last Dance
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
windows to the soul. Well, I think these hippo eyes are quite instructive too as is the water swell around
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Beware the Jabberwock
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
: they are about these specific objects, yet they also invite reverie or recollections. I like to think
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The garden game
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

The Phantom of the Opera / Il Fantasma Dell Opera
Located in London, GB
. However, he thinks that the music publisher is trying to steal his piece, and in a fit of madness, kills
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Vintage 1940s Italian Posters

Materials

Paper

Father and son oil on canvas painting surrealist
By Ramon Llovet Miserol
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
interested in the philosophical work of the thinker Krishnamurti and in theosophy. From here, the poetic and
Category

1960s Symbolist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Endless Possibilities (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

The Black Panther Returns
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
everything in front and behind the panther’s face out of focus. I think I had three inches of depth of field
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The North Slope
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
assured there is a load of big healthy bears on the North Slope. I think we saw over 25 in a week." -David
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Wanders II
By Juan Miguel Palacios
Located in New York, NY
to be an extremely ugly society.” “Words with which the prestigious American thinker and linguist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

On the Road (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
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 Color Photography

Materials

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

High Chrome Sfera Floor Lamp by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
logistics, this is the think tank for our artists and designers. pulpo’s dealer network extends far beyond
Category

2010s German Post-Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Steel

Medium Orange Glaze Sfera Floor Lamp by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
logistics, this is the think tank for our artists and designers. pulpo’s dealer network extends far beyond
Category

2010s German Post-Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Steel

Small Smoky Grey Sfera Floor Lamp by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
logistics, this is the think tank for our artists and designers. pulpo’s dealer network extends far beyond
Category

2010s German Post-Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Steel

Star Gazing Through the Wrong End of the Telescope
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
loose assemblage of approach. The quote finishes with, “I think with an aesthetic like that you can have
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Night city. The way home" modern urban landscape of the Volskya Lilya.
Located in Zofingen, AG
makes you think and even philosophize. This picture will appeal not only to young people, but also to
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2010s Pop Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Guitar and Ruth
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 Origins of Cooking
By Phaidon
Located in New York, NY
world and developing the elBullifoundation, a culinary academy and think tank, on the site of the former
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Books

Materials

Paper

The Laughers (Version 1)
Located in New Orleans, LA
work… I think of the subjects in these paintings as voids or impressions where the people and objects
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Winter by the Lake
By Shivani Dugar
Located in Fairfield, CT
nature with a sense of obscurity and ambiguity, and then let the viewers think about it and draw their
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Italian Contemporary Art by Federica Frati - The Angel and the Minotaur
Located in Paris, IDF
hatching, that makes us think about the sense of the divine in our society, the subjects are modern
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Monotype

Side Effects (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Memory Gaps (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really great
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Rendering Memories (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

The Van [Tail] Light
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

Where The Songbirds Hide
By Shivani Dugar
Located in Fairfield, CT
nature with a sense of obscurity and ambiguity, and then let the viewers think about it and draw their
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

On the South Dowling
Located in Deddington, GB
. The use of palette knife and think paint portrays the undulating, wildness of the land, creating
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Ward House Turret
By Marion Buricatu
Located in Boston, MA
experimenting with smaller compositions, it pushed me to keep a creative mindset and think about the elements in
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

For the Only 4
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
. When I create a brushstroke I think of the motion of water in a stream or the movement of a breeze. My
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Sumi Ink, Archival Pigment

For the Only 2
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
. When I create a brushstroke I think of the motion of water in a stream or the movement of a breeze. My
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Sumi Ink, Archival Pigment

Read the Signs #3
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
sculpture project and a new direction for this creative output. “I often think of my kids when I think of
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

The Home of Golf
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
a little bit of history. I was honored to be behind the lens and I think I did the town and the Old
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

To the Flow 2
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
. When I create a brushstroke I think of the motion of water in a stream, or the movement of a breeze. My
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Silk, Sumi Ink, Archival Pigment

Fang Fang -- The Artist s Daughter Portrait
By Zhang Biao
Located in Soquel, CA
comparison, think about the stereotypical pictures from the Cultural Revolution. Then one will see and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Aquatint, Archival Paper

The philosopher s study II
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

To the Flow 1
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
brushstroke I think of the motion of water in a stream, or the movement of a breeze. My lines do not create a
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Silk, Sumi Ink, Archival Pigment

By the Sea (Zuma Beach)
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 Landscape Photography

Materials

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

The Home of Golf
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
a little bit of history. I was honoured to be behind the lens and I think I did the town and the Old
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Bare Arms (The Practice #1)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
a new direction for this creative output. “I often think of my kids when I think of progress. The
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint

The Farmer s Wife (American Depression)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
our fingers, to relive and reinterpret, over and over again, the memories we think define us
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Her last Call (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, 21st Century
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

The time has come
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

It s always the same
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

The "Mile High" Club
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
many attendees would create as much interest as these two. I think the image has a Hitchcockian mood
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Traces of Time (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

The Voice From Without
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
says, “I always have this inner voice that dictates what I do and how I think.” The concept of the
Category

2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Plaster, Wax, Pigment

Italian Impressionist View of the Church of the Madeleine in Martigues, France
By Merio Ameglio, 1897-1970
Located in Woodbury, CT
framed in a handmade Italian embossed silver/gold frame which I think sets off the architectural elements
Category

1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Walk of Life
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
time to think, never mind look at the LCD screen. The mother was a colossus of an elephant and I cut it
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Legends of the Fall
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
Skogafoss over the last 10 years. I think we were all done by 7 am. It is always rewarding when the end
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

opaline murano glass lamp from the 80s by the master glassmakers of murano
By Maestri Muranesi
Located in Catania, IT
: getting the raw materials there! To understand the importance of glass production in Venice, just think
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Vintage 1980s Italian Table Lamps

Materials

Murano Glass

Me soaking up the light and The weight of your head. Diptych Porcelain cup
Located in Miami Beach, FL
think of me, I think of you. “The weight of your head..” The weight of your head on my ribcage is
Category

2010s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain, Paint

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  • 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.