This guide was created as a partnership between the DiMenna-Nyselius Library and the Fairfield University Art Museum and provides additional resources and information on the artists and objects included in two Fairfield University Art Museum exhibitions:

RODIN: TRUTH, FORM, LIFE / Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections

On view September 13 - December 21, 2019.

Prints from the Age of Rodin

On view October 4 - December 12, 2019.

Use the blue tabs to view library and other resources for each exhibition. 

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August Rodin

Monumental Head of the Shade

Executed in about 1880

Foundry: Godard

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation