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accession number: 1943.278
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Standing Buddha, 400s CE. Northern India, Sarnath, Gupta Period, 5th Century. Sandstone; overall: 76.2 cm (30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.278
title: Standing Buddha
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creation date: 400s CE
creation date earliest: 400
creation date latest: 499
current location: 243 Indian and Southeast Asian
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Northern India, Sarnath, Gupta Period, 5th Century
technique: sandstone
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Indian Art
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 76.2 cm (30 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: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture
opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00
Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).
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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'}
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PROVENANCE
(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: at least by 1942–43
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1943–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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. 15, p. 23; Reproduced: cat. no. 15, p. 43
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Hollis, Howard. “Three Indian Buddhist Sculptures.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 31, no. 3, 1944, pp. 33–37.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 33–34; Reproduced: p. 37
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141113
Trubner, Henry. The Art of Greater India, 3000 B.C.-1800 A.D.; An Exhibition of Indian Art Presented Under the Patronage of the Embassy of India Functioning for the Government of India. March 1 to Apr. 16, 1950. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum, 1950.
page number: no. 42
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Mayling Soong Foundation, and Wellesley College. Exhibition of the Art of India, April 18th Through May 15th, 1953, Under the Auspices of the Mayling Soong Foundation. Wellesley, MA: Mayling Soong Foundation, 1953.
page number: no. 14
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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. 747
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: no. 11, p. 51
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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. 231
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n255
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. 231
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n255
Craven, Roy C. A Concise History of Indian Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 113, fig. 72
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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. 291
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n311
Heeramaneck, Alice N. Masterpieces of Indian Painting: From the Former Collections of Nasli M. Heeramaneck. Verona, Italy: A.N. Heeramaneck, 1984.
page number: no. 32
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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. 126–127
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: no. 96, p. 87; Mentioned: p. 119
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