id: 165154 accession number: 2007.155 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.155 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:03.070000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 162.6 x 48 cm (64 x 18 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- 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'} --- 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 footnotes: *
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).
citations: Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, deaccessioned and consigned to Sotheby's, New York for sale date: 1927–2007 footnotes: citations: (Sotheby's, New York, NY, March 23, 2007, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: March 23, 2007 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2007– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: 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 url: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes. vol. 22, no. 1 (September 1930). page number: Reproduced: p. 40 url: 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 url: 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 url: Kramrisch, Stella. Manifestations of Shiva. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 45, p. 54 url: 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 url: Failing, Patricia. "The Hard Sell?," ARTnews, vol. 106 no. 6 (June 2007). page number: p. 55 url: 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 url: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 47 (October 2007): back cover. page number: Reproduced: back cover url: “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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.155/2007.155_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.155/2007.155_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.155/2007.155_full.tif