id: 144793 accession number: 1969.57 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.57 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:24.906000 Head of Vishnu, 300s CE. Central India, Madhya Pradesh, Vidisha, Gupta. Sandstone; overall: 40.6 x 38.1 cm (16 x 15 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1969.57 title: Head of Vishnu title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 300s CE creation date earliest: 300 creation date latest: 399 current location: 243 Indian and Southeast Asian creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Central India, Madhya Pradesh, Vidisha, Gupta technique: sandstone department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 40.6 x 38.1 cm (16 x 15 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1969 opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). title: The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Its Influence opening date: 1978-10-05T04:00:00 The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Its Influence. Asia House Galleries, New York City, NY (organizer) (October 5-December 3, 1978); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (January 1-February 25, 1979); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (March 24-May 6, 1979). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (William H. Wolff [1906–1991], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1969 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1969– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1969." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 1 (January 1970): 2-50. page number: Reproduced: no. 223; Mentioned: no. 223, p. 51 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152307 "Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1969." Archives of Asian Art 24 (1970): 86-117. page number: Mentioned: p. 107 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20111025 Harle, J. C. Gupta Sculpture: Indian Sculpture of the Fourth to the Sixth Centuries A.D. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press, 1974. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11, pls. 18 and 19, p. 36 url: 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: pp. 108–109, fig. 36 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. 291 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n311 Pal, Pratapaditya. The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Its Influence. [New York]: Asia Society in association with J. Weatherhill, 1978. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 4, p. 58 url: Harle, J. C. The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1986. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 72, p. 96 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. 132-133 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.57/1969.57_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.57/1969.57_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.57/1969.57_full.tif