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Busy Schedule of Rodin Traveling Exhibitions To Continue

Busy schedules await the Foundation’s two traveling exhibitions of works by Auguste Rodin, which can be seen together until June 14 at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown Pennsylvania.  When this combined show closes this summer at the Michener it will separate into two thematic shows that are committed through 2017.

The first stop for a 32-piece exhibition that features bronzes of all kinds by the French master and is titled Rodin:  The Human Experience, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections, is the Honolulu Museum of Art, where it opens in July 2015.  This will be the first exhibition of Rodin’s bronzes in Hawaii.  From here it goes to the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas, opening in March 2016.  The final stop in 2016 will be the Joel & Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond in Virginia.  It opens here in August 2016.

A smaller show made up of Rodin portraits, titled Rodin:  Portraits of a Lifetime, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections, will travel at the same time.  This show contains Rodin’s portraits of the famous and influential figures of his time, along with three portraits of him by others.  When it leaves the Michener it goes to the David McCune International Art Gallery at Methodist University in Fayetteville North Carolina; it opens here in February 2016.  Next it travels to Iowa’s Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, where can be visited from June into September 2016.  In October 2016 this portraits group opens at Texas A&M University’s J. Wayne Stark Gallery in College Station, where it will be on view for the remainder of the year.

Both groups of sculpture come together again in January 2017 at Oregon’s Portland Art Museum, where it will be for four months.  From here the combined show travels to the Flint Institute of Arts in Michigan for the period May through July 2017.  The figures group then travels to the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah Georgia (September 2017-January 2018).

Because museums usually plan their exhibition schedules three years in advance, Foundation staff is working now on a new show that will begin its journey in 2018.  Stay tuned for more news!