id: 138613 accession number: 1962.45 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.45 updated: 2025-02-09 02:45:25.935000 Head of a Yaksha, c. 125 BCE. Northern India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura, Shunga period (185–78 BCE). Mottled red sandstone; overall: 48.2 x 40 x 35.6 cm (19 x 15 3/4 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1962.45 title: Head of a Yaksha title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 125 BCE creation date earliest: -150 creation date latest: -50 current location: creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund copyright: --- culture: Northern India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura, Shunga period (185–78 BCE) technique: mottled red sandstone department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art - Sunga type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 48.2 x 40 x 35.6 cm (19 x 15 3/4 x 14 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Art of India: Stone Sculpture opening date: 1962-09-25T04:00:00 The Art of India: Stone Sculpture. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (September 25-November 15, 1962). title: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: Tree and Serpent: The Evolution of Early Buddhist Art in India opening date: 2023-07-17T04:00:00 Tree and Serpent: The Evolution of Early Buddhist Art in India. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (July 17-November 13, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (William H. Wolff, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1962 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1962- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Art of India; Stone Sculpture. [New York, Tokyo]: The Asia Society, 1962. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 15 url: Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review 1962.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 49, no. 9, 1962, pp. 199–227. page number: Mentioned: no. 68, p. 224 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25151915 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. 228 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n252 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. 228 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n252 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. 84-85 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. 287 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n307 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 11 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n26 Morris, Rekha, "Sense and Sensitivity: Sherman Lee's Impact on the Collection of North Indian Sculpture at the Cleveland Museum of Art," Orientations, vol. 36, no.1, p. 88-93. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 88 url: Guy, John. Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023. page number: Mentioned: pp. 48–49; Reproduced: p. 48, cat. 17 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.45/1962.45_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.45/1962.45_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.45/1962.45_full.tif