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Rodin: Portraits of a Lifetime, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections now on view at Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in Iowa

Residents and summer visitors to Cedar Rapids have the opportunity to see the Foundation’s circulating exhibition, Rodin: Portraits of a Lifetime, now on view at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art until September 11. Part of a museum-wide celebration of portraiture, the exhibition’s stop in Cedar Rapids is part of its three-year nation-wide tour.

“The Rodin exhibition offers people a rare opportunity to see work by the most important sculptor since Michelangelo,” said Sean Ulmer, the Museum’s Executive Director. “Rodin redefined sculpture and ushered in the modern era. In many ways, he did for sculpture what the Impressionists did for painting.”

Commenting on the long-term friendship between the Cantor Foundation and the Museum, Foundation Executive Director and Curator Judith Sobol noted that the Museum hosted a large Cantor Rodin respective in 1991 and has also been a “favorite place for loans. We are delighted that the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art continues to welcome loans and traveling exhibitions from our collection.”