id: 144961 accession number: 1970.156 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.156 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:25.615000 Green Tara, c. 1260s. Central Tibet. Thangka; gum tempera, ink, and gold on sized cotton; painting: 52.4 x 43.2 cm (20 5/8 x 17 in.); overall: 107 x 65 cm (42 1/8 x 25 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund by exchange 1970.156 title: Green Tara title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1260s creation date earliest: 1250 creation date latest: 1270 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund by exchange copyright: --- culture: Central Tibet technique: thangka; gum tempera, ink, and gold on sized cotton department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Tibetan Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Painting: 52.4 x 43.2 cm (20 5/8 x 17 in.); Overall: 107 x 65 cm (42 1/8 x 25 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: translation: remark: inscription: Om Ah Hum translation: remark: inscription: om tare tutare ture svaha translation: remark: inscription: Om Ah Hum translation: remark: inscription: Om Ah Hum translation: remark: inscription: om ah sarva vyida svaha translation: remark: inscription: ye dharmā hetuprabhavā he- tuṃ teṣāṃ tathāgato hy avadat teṣāṃ ca yo nirodha evaṃvādī mahāśramaṇaḥ translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1970 opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet opening date: 1998-10-05T00:00:00 Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (October 5, 1998-January 17, 1999); Museum Rietberg, Zürich (February 14-May 16, 1999). title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 239). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 18, 2013-June 30, 2014).', 'opening_date': '2013-11-18T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 4-November 7, 2016).', 'opening_date': '2016-04-04T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1970- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1970." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 2 (1971): 22-71. page number: Mentioned: no. 70, p. 157 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152361 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. 297 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n317 Orientations, vol. 20, October 1989. page number: Reproduced: cover and fig. 17, p. 42 url: Rhie, Marylin M., and Robert A. F. Thurman. Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. page number: Reproduced: fig. 14, p. 51 url: Singer, Jane Casey. "Early Tankas: Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries," Marg: A Magazine of the Arts (Sept. 1996), pp. 28-29. page number: Reproduced: fig. 11 url: Fisher, Robert E. Art of Tibet. London; New York: Thames & Hudson, 1997. page number: Reproduced: fig. 112, pp. 134-135 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Reproduced: pp. 158-159 url: Kossak, Steven, Jane Casey Singer, and Robert Bruce-Gardner. Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Reproduced: no. 37, pp. 144-146 url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/101557 Kossak, Steven, Jane Casey Singer, Robert Bruce-Gardner, and Michael Henss. Geheime Visionen: frühe Malerei aus Zentraltibet [=Sacred visions : early paintings from Central Tibet]. Zürich: Museum Rietberg, 1999. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 37, pp. 144-146 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 101, p. 91, 119 url: Blezer, Henk and John Ardussi, eds. Impressions of Bhutan and Tibetan Art: Tibetan Studies III. Leiden: Brill, 2002. page number: Reproduced: pl. 42 url: Czuma, Stanislaw, "Great Acquisitions and Southeast Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art," Orientations (Jan/Feb 2005), vol. 36, no. 1. page number: Reproduced: pp. 86-87 url: Jackson, David Paul, and Christian Luczanits. Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet: from the Masterworks of Tibetan Painting Series. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2011. page number: Reproduced: p 12, fig 1.8 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Reproduced: pp. 104-105 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 33 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterworks on Loan: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art: April through June 2016. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 22 url: "Stories from Storage." The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 24, no. 5: 6-7. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 6-7 url: Mace, Sonya Rhie. “Asian Art: Green Tara and the Art of Protection.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 24. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 24. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.156/1970.156_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.156/1970.156_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.156/1970.156_full.tif