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Seated Buddha

Seated Buddha

200s CE
sandstone
Overall: 63 x 58.5 cm (24 13/16 x 23 1/16 in.)
Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1941.94
Location: not on view

Description

Artists in the north Indian city of Mathura reinterpreted the appearance of the Greco-Roman style of drapery, which was popular in the region of Gandhara, in present-day Pakistan. They preferred a more otherworldly, abstracted rendition of the folds, giving the Buddha a powerful, superhuman energy.
  • ?–1941
    (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1941–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. “The Origin of the Buddha Image.” The Art Bulletin, vol. 9, no. 4, 1927, pp. 287–329. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 312, fig. 52 3046550
    Hollis, Howard. “Buddhist Statue from Mathurā.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 29, no. 6, 1942, pp. 98, 100–102. Reproduced: p. 98 www.jstor.org
    Lee, Sherman E. Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942. Mentioned: cat. no. 4, p. 21; Reproduced: cat. no. 4, p. 40
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 743 archive.org
    Rowland, Benjamin. The Evolution of the Buddha Image. [New York]: Distributed by Abrams, 1963. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 47, fig. 8
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 230 archive.org
    Begley, W. E. Indian Buddhist Sculpture in American Collections. Louisville, KY: J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1968. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 13
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 230 archive.org
    Czuma, Stanislaw. “Mathura Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 64, no. 3, 1977, pp. 83–114. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 98, fig. 26 25152680
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 289 archive.org
    Williams, Joanna Gottfried. The Art of Gupta India: Empire and Province. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982. Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 22
    Czuma, Stanislaw J., and Rekha Morris. Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat.no. 16, p. 73
  • Julie Mehretu: Portals (FRONT International: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 13, 2022).
    Buddha. Tobu Museum of Art (April 11-June 28, 1998); Nara National Museum (July 11-August 30, 1998); Nagoya City Art Museum (September 9-October 11, 1998).
    Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).
    Indian Buddhist Sculpture in American Collections. J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (February 27–March 31, 1968).
    Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).
    Evolution of the Buddha Image. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (May 7-June 30, 1963).
    Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942).
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