Bernard Bolter

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1993

At 19, having only ever lived in San Francisco, Bolter thought of the city as comparatively 'small' — not rural, but young and undense next to the old European cities he was reading about. This sense of San Francisco's smallness surfaces in The Thinker's invented crossroads town.

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The Thinker, 1993

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Artwork — Art/Official session, July 28, 2026

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Throughline: A solitary figure placed in direct relationship to architecture — dwarfing it, standing on it, or being defined by scale against it — recurs from The Thinker (1993) through later architecturally-engaged work including Towers (2002) and Skulptur Projekte Munster (2007). First noticed in this session while looking at The Thinker's figure fused with the roads/buildings of an invented small town. Not yet corroborated by a dedicated session on the later works — flagged here as a candidate throughline pending reinforcement.…