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accession number: 1969.57
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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
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creation date: 300s CE
creation date earliest: 300
creation date latest: 399
current location: 243 Indian and Southeast Asian
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Central India, Madhya Pradesh, Vidisha, Gupta
technique: sandstone
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Indian Art
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 40.6 x 38.1 cm (16 x 15 in.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(William H. Wolff [1906–1991], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1969
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1969–
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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
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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
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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. 132-133
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