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Seated Buddha

AD 200s

Northern India, Mathura, Kushan period

(c. AD 80–320)

Sandstone

Overall: 63 x 58.5 cm (24 13/16 x 23 1/16 in.)

Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1941.94

Location

not on view

Description

Artists in the north Indian city of Mathura reinterpreted the appearance of the Greco-Roman style of drapery, which was popular in the region of Gandhara, in present-day Pakistan. They preferred a more otherworldly, abstracted rendition of the folds, giving the Buddha a powerful, superhuman energy.

Provenance

?–1941

(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1941–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. “The Origin of the Buddha Image.” The Art Bulletin, vol. 9, no. 4, 1927, pp. 287–329. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 312, fig. 52 www.jstor.org

Hollis, Howard. “Buddhist Statue from Mathurā.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 29, no. 6, 1942, pp. 98, 100–102. Reproduced: p. 98 www.jstor.org

Lee, Sherman E. Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942. Mentioned: cat. no. 4, p. 21; Reproduced: cat. no. 4, p. 40

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 743 archive.org

Rowland, Benjamin. The Evolution of the Buddha Image. [New York]: Distributed by Abrams, 1963. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 47, fig. 8

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 230 archive.org

Begley, W. E. Indian Buddhist Sculpture in American Collections. Louisville, KY: J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1968. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 13

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 230 archive.org

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. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 98, fig. 26 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 289 archive.org

Williams, Joanna Gottfried. The Art of Gupta India: Empire and Province. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982. Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 22

Czuma, Stanislaw J., and Rekha Morris. Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat.no. 16, p. 73

Exhibition history

Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942).

Indian Buddhist Sculpture in American Collections. J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (February 27–March 31, 1968).

Evolution of the Buddha Image. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (May 7-June 30, 1963).

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).

Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).

Buddha. Tobu Museum of Art (April 11-June 28, 1998); Nara National Museum (July 11-August 30, 1998); Nagoya City Art Museum (September 9-October 11, 1998).

Julie Mehretu: Portals (FRONT International: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 13, 2022).

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