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Richmond Plays Host to Rodin

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Virginia’s Museum of Fine Arts opens a major exhibition this weekend, showcasing more than 200 works by the famed French sculptor Auguste Rodin.  Sandy Hausman reports that Richmond is one of only two cities in the U.S. to host the show before it heads back to Paris.

The Museum of Fine Arts announced the coming of Rodin: The Evolution of a Genius at the home of the French ambassador in Washington.  VMFA Director Alex Nyerges said the exhibition will show how a pioneer of modern sculpture thought and how works like The Thinker and The Kiss evolved from drawing to plaster cast to finished bronze or marble.

"There are some 220 objects – about 200 sculptures," he says, "They include many versions of the same object in different materials as well as in different states of the creative process, but we also have drawings and then photographs of him in his studio."

The show will open on November 21 and run through March 13, when it leaves for Boston.  Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $10 for students.  There’s no charge for another show, opening  November 24th. The McGloughlin collection of American Art features 73 works by the likes of John Singer Sargent and George Bellows.

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