id: 121109 accession number: 1941.94 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.94 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:47.544000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 200s CE creation date earliest: 200 creation date latest: 299 current location: creditline: Edward L. Whittemore Fund copyright: --- culture: Northern India, Mathura, Kushan period technique: sandstone department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art - Kushan, Mathura type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 63 x 58.5 cm (24 13/16 x 23 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1941 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1941– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 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. 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.94/1941.94_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.94/1941.94_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.94/1941.94_full.tif