id: 114974 accession number: 1935.146 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1935.146 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:26.696000 Buddha Calling on Earth to Witness, 800s. Northeastern India, Bihar, Tetravan, Pala Period (750-1197). Chloritic schist; overall: 94 cm (37 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1935.146 title: Buddha Calling on Earth to Witness title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 800s creation date earliest: 800 creation date latest: 899 current location: 243 Indian and Southeast Asian creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Northeastern India, Bihar, Tetravan, Pala Period (750-1197) technique: chloritic schist department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 94 cm (37 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Ye dharmā hetu prabhavā tesā hetu tathāgata hya vadat... translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: India's Art opening date: 1949-12-02T05:00:00 India's Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 2, 1949-January 22, 1950). title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). title: Sacred India opening date: 1985-11-05T05:00:00 Sacred India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1985-January 12, 1986). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942).', 'opening_date': '1942-10-01T04:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1935 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1935- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Eastman, Alvan C. Catalog of the Heeramaneck Collection of Early Indian Sculptures, Paintings, Bronzes and Textiles. New York: Heeramaneck Galleries, 1934. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 14, pp. 10 and 29 url: Hollis, Howard C. "An Indian Buddhist Stele." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 24, no. 9 (1937): 135-37. page number: Mentioned: pp. 135–137 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137872 Lee, Sherman E. Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 19, p. 23; Reproduced: cat. no. 19, p. 46 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 753 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n136 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 232 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n256 Marcus, Margaret F. “Sculptures from Bihar and Bengal.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 54, no. 8, 1967, pp. 240–262. page number: Mentioned: p. 246, fig. 5; Reproduced: pp. 247, 261 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152173 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 232 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n256 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 294 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n314 Bly, Linda. An Important 12th Century Tibetan Thanka in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1991. page number: Reproduced: illustration 2 url: Connell, Timothy C., and Jackson J. Spielvogel. World Art Transparencies. Cincinnati: West Educational Pub, 1998. page number: Reproduced: Acetate 27 url: Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. Fifth edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. page number: Reproduced: no. 18- 29, p. 486 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 136-137 url: Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. Sixth edition. Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001. page number: Reproduced: fig. 20-28, p. 550 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1935.146/1935.146_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1935.146/1935.146_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1935.146/1935.146_full.tif