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• Thinker, The
  Thinker, The

  noun

  a bronze statue (1879–89) by Rodin.
• The Thinker
  The Thinker

  A bronze statue by Auguste Rodin. The seated subject is supporting his chin on his wrist and his arm on his knee.

Thinker, The

American  

noun

1. French Le Penseur.  a bronze statue (1879–89) by Rodin.

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The Thinker Cultural  

1. A bronze statue by Auguste Rodin. The seated subject is supporting his chin on his wrist and his arm on his knee.

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Thinker, The The Thinker

Michael Harlin at the American Thinker The photo is a fake, plain and simple.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2013

In 2004, a statue named The Drinker - a subversive take on Rodin's The Thinker - was installed on Shaftesbury Avenue, central London, before being stolen soon afterwards.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

While remaining in place on the monumental Gates of Hell, The Thinker was exhibited individually in 1888 and thus became an independent work.

From Reuters ● Jun. 30, 2022

She thinks the Allen monument could be Gregory’s nod to Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker, which points to her training in Paris in the 1920s.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 18, 2020

Mourinho hooked Jan Vertonghen after 54 minutes of the Southampton replay and the centre-half was visibly shattered, traipsing around the perimeter of the pitch before channelling Rodin’s The Thinker on the bench.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2020

She looked like that famous statue, The Thinker, but thin, with her brown plaid skirt covering her skinny knees and her ponytail flopped to one side.

From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements