| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Cranbrook Educational Community (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States) | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1938 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Fredericks, Marshall M. | en_US |
| dc.date | 1938 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-23T18:12:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-08-23T18:12:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1938 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 267724 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 3254 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/184038 | |
| dc.description | Overall view with museum behind; Fredericks created this sculpture after George Gough Booth, the founder of Cranbrook Educational Community, asked him to make a "Thinker" for the steps of the Cranbrook Art Museum similar to Auguste Rodin's renowned The Thinker, a cast of which is at the entrance of the Detroit Institute of Arts. The pose Fredericks' Thinker assumes is a direct reference to Rodin's sculpture; however, Fredericks' replacement of Rodin's heroic male nude with a bemused chimpanzee is a thought provoking variation on the earlier statue and reveals his fondness for primates. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/20/2015) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | black granite | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | animal | en_US |
| dc.subject | primates | en_US |
| dc.subject | apes | en_US |
| dc.subject | Twentieth century | en_US |
| dc.title | The Thinker | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 6A1-FREDM-TT-A01 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | American | en_US |
| vra.technique | carving (processes) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | sculpture (visual work) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Marshall M. Fredericks (American sculptor, 1908-1998) | en_US |
