Auguste Rodin’s The Hand of God is the central sculpture in the Centinela Valley Community Hospital's Court of Honor.  Rodin sculpted a large hand holding an irregular rock from which two small embracing figures emerge. The artwork may be read as a metaphor for creation, with the creator’s hand symbolizing a sculptor and the figures evoking Adam and Eve. Art historians have cited this piece as a pivotal bridge for Rodin’s symbolic and realistic artistic interests.

Rodin was quoted as saying “When God created the world, it is of modeling he must have thought first of all".

Rodin’s enlarged hands series were compositions started toward the end of his career.  His titles including The Hand of God, The Hand of the Devil (1903), The Cathedral (1908), and The Secret (ca. 1910) were applied to several thematic variations in marble and bronze. One of them is at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and the other is in the Musée Rodin in Paris, a third in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.