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The American Athlete

1901–1904

Artist: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840 - 1917)
Title: The American Athlete
Date: 1901–1904
Place of Creation: France
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium: Plaster
Dimensions: 18 1/8 x 13 1/4 x 7 7/16 in. (46 x 33.7 x 18.9 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr.
Accession Number: 1933.12.9

Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 21, nos. 5/6 (September–October 1963), no. 117.
Caso, Jacques de and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin’s Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1977), pp. 295–298, no. 62.
Le Normand–Romain, Antoinette, with the collaboration of Hélène Marraud and Diane Tytgat, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, 2 vols. (Paris: Musée Rodin and Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2007), vol. 1, p. 141.
Chapman, Martin, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin at the Legion of Honor (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017), pp. 146–147, pl. 53.

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