id: 165154
accession number: 2007.155
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Brahma, late 900s–1000s. South India, Tamil Nadu, Chola dynasty, late 10th - early 11th century. Granite; overall: 162.6 x 48 cm (64 x 18 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund, this work was accepted in honor of Stanislaw Czuma in recognition of his long service to the CMA 2007.155
title: Brahma
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creation date: late 900s–1000s
creation date earliest: 975
creation date latest: 1100
current location: 243 Indian and Southeast Asian
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund, this work was accepted in honor of Stanislaw Czuma in recognition of his long service to the CMA
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culture: South India, Tamil Nadu, Chola dynasty, late 10th - early 11th century
technique: granite
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Indian Art - Chola
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 162.6 x 48 cm (64 x 18 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Exhibition of Hindu, Khmer, Chinese Sculptures and Early Chinese Bronzes. Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY (1927).', 'opening_date': '1927-01-01T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Manifestations of Shiva. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (1981–1982).', 'opening_date': '1981-01-01T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Shiva and His Many Incarnations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 24, 2007-March 5, 2008).', 'opening_date': '2007-06-24T04:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
(C. T. Loo & Co. New York, NY, sold to Mrs. George A. [Lucie Matter] Forman [c. 1883–1952] for gift to the Albright Knox Art Gallery)
date: ?–1927
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Lucie Matter (c. 1883-1952) married George Alfred Forman (1875-1923). Mr. Forman was the founder, president, and principal stockholder of "Southwestern Petroleum Company." Later after his death, she married Harry Blanchard Spaulding (1881-1955).
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Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, deaccessioned and consigned to Sotheby's, New York for sale
date: 1927–2007
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(Sotheby's, New York, NY, March 23, 2007, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: March 23, 2007
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2007–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
O. C. Gangoly, “Some Images of Brahma of the Chola Period,” Rupam, Nos. 35-36, July-October 1928, pp. 29-30.
page number: Reproduced: fig. A
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Eastman, Alvan C. “A Brahma Image of the X-XI Century.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit, vol. 10, no. 3, 1928, pp. 34–36
page number: Reproduced: cover; Mentioned: pp. 34–36
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41501157
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes. vol. 21, no. 1 (May 1930).
page number: Reproduced: p. 4
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Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes. vol. 22, no. 1 (September 1930).
page number: Reproduced: p. 40
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Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff ed. Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture in the Permanent Collection. [Buffalo]: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, 1949.
page number: p. 154, no. 70
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Lippe, Aschwin. “Divine Images in Stone and Bronze,” Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 4, 1971, pp. 29-79.
page number: Reproduced: figs. 10-11, p. 38
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1512615
Nash, Steven A., Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik, and Emese Wood. Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942. New York: Rizzoli International Publications in association with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York,1979.
page number: pp. 90-91
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Kramrisch, Stella. Manifestations of Shiva. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1981.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 45, p. 54
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Sotheby's New York. Indian & Southeast Asian Art: Including Property of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. March 23, 2007.
page number: Reproduced: Lot 27
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Failing, Patricia. "The Hard Sell?," ARTnews, vol. 106 no. 6 (June 2007).
page number: p. 55
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Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 47 (September 2007): 3-4.
page number: Reproduced: cover and pp. 3-4
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2007-07/page/2
Andrews, Isabel, John Mallet, and Samson Spanier. "To Sell-Or Not to Sell" Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors, September 2007, Vol. 166, pp. 34-39.
page number: p. 38
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Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 47 (October 2007): back cover.
page number: Reproduced: back cover
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“Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2006-2008.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 58, 2008, pp. 137–185.
page number: Reproduced: p. 152, fig.9.
url: www.jstor.org/stable/20542572
Franklin, David. “Recent Acquisitions (2005—11) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 154, no. 1312, 2012, pp. 525–532.
page number: Reproduced: p. 527, fig. VI
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23232806
Bidwell, Frederick E. and Leslie Cade. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art; New York, NY: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 206-207
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