id: 121109
accession number: 1941.94
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Seated Buddha, 200s CE. Northern India, Mathura, Kushan period. Sandstone; overall: 63 x 58.5 cm (24 13/16 x 23 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1941.94
title: Seated Buddha
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creation date: 200s CE
creation date earliest: 200
creation date latest: 299
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creditline: Edward L. Whittemore Fund
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culture: Northern India, Mathura, Kushan period
technique: sandstone
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Indian Art - Kushan, Mathura
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 63 x 58.5 cm (24 13/16 x 23 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Evolution of the Buddha Image
opening date: 1963-05-07T04:00:00
Evolution of the Buddha Image. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (May 7-June 30, 1963).
title: Juxtapositions
opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00
Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).
title: Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India
opening date: 1985-11-13T05:00:00
Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).
title: Buddha
opening date: 1998-04-11T00:00:00
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).
title: Julie Mehretu: Portals (FRONT International: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows)
opening date: 2022-07-16T04:00:00
Julie Mehretu: Portals (FRONT International: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 13, 2022).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942).', 'opening_date': '1942-10-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Indian Buddhist Sculpture in American Collections. J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (February 27–March 31, 1968).', 'opening_date': '1968-03-31T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1941
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1941–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. “The Origin of the Buddha Image.” The Art Bulletin, vol. 9, no. 4, 1927, pp. 287–329.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 312, fig. 52
url: www.jstor.org/stable/3046550
Hollis, Howard. “Buddhist Statue from Mathurā.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 29, no. 6, 1942, pp. 98, 100–102.
page number: Reproduced: p. 98
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140996
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. 4, p. 21; Reproduced: cat. no. 4, p. 40
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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. 743
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n135
Rowland, Benjamin. The Evolution of the Buddha Image. [New York]: Distributed by Abrams, 1963.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 47, fig. 8
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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. 230
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n254
Begley, W. E. Indian Buddhist Sculpture in American Collections. Louisville, KY: J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1968.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 13
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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. 230
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n254
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.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 98, fig. 26
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152680
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. 289
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n309
Williams, Joanna Gottfried. The Art of Gupta India: Empire and Province. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 22
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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.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat.no. 16, p. 73
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IMAGES
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