id:			151000
accession number:	1982.49
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.49
updated:		2025-05-24 12:02:26.847000

Goddess Uma, 1000s. Nepal. Gilt bronze and semiprecious stones; overall: 35.6 x 27.9 x 25.4 cm (14 x 11 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1982.49

title:				Goddess Uma
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creation date:			1000s
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1099
current location:		237 Himalayan
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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culture:	Nepal
technique:	gilt bronze and semiprecious stones
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Nepalese Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 35.6 x 27.9 x 25.4 cm (14 x 11 x 10 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1982
	opening date:   1983-01-05T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1982</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).

	title:		Himalayas:  An Aesthetic Adventure
	opening date:   2003-04-05T00:00:00
	<i>Himalayas:  An Aesthetic Adventure</i>. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (April 5-August 17, 2003); National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC (October 19, 2003-January 11, 2004).

	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
	<i>Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).

	title:		Bronze
	opening date:   2012-09-15T00:00:00
	<i>Bronze</i>. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (September 15-December 9, 2012).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>The Sensuous Immortals</em>. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (October 25, 1977–January 15, 1978); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (March 9–April 1978); Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (May 26–July 30, 1978); Nelson Atkins Gallery, Kansas City, MO (September 15–October 29, 1978).', 'opening_date': '1977-10-25T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Pan Asian Collection
	date: by 1977
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	(Robert H. Ellsworth [1929–2014], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1982
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1982–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review for 1982." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 70, no. 1 (1983): 3-55.
	page number: 	p. 54, no. 104, repr. p. 30
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159799

	Pal, Pratapaditya, Amy Heller, Oskar von Hinüber, and Gautamavajra Vajrācārya. <em>Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure. </em>Chicago, Ill: Art Institute of Chicago in association with University of California Press and Mapin Pub, 2003.
	page number: 	exh. cat. no. 8, p. 32
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	Ekserdjian, David. <em>Bronze</em>. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2012.
	page number: 	cat. no. 55, p. 149
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	Pal, Pratapaditya.<em> The Sensuous Immortals: A Selection of Sculptures from the Pan-Asian Collection.</em> Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1977.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 96, p. 166
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