The Thinker is one of about ten such casts made by the sculptor Auguste Rodin while working on his never-completed Gates of Hell series, which was based on Dante's Divine Comedy. On March 24, 1970, a bomb blast knocked CMA's cast of The Thinker off its pedestal. Though the case was never solved, police at the time surmised that the radical Weather Underground organization planted the bomb as a protest against the Vietnam War. CMA opted to return the sculpture to its perch in its damaged state rather than restoring it. | Date: March 24, 1970 | Source: Cleveland Memory, Michael Schwartz Library Special Collections at Cleveland State UniversityDownload Original File
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