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Head of Vishnu

AD 300s

Central India, Madhya Pradesh, Vidisha, Gupta Period

(320-647)

Sandstone

Overall: 40.6 x 38.1 cm (16 x 15 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1969.57

Location

243 Indian and Southeast Asian

Provenance

?–1969

(William H. Wolff [1906–1991], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1969–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1969." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 1 (January 1970): 2-50. Reproduced: no. 223; Mentioned: no. 223, p. 51 www.jstor.org

"Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1969." Archives of Asian Art 24 (1970): 86-117. Mentioned: p. 107 www.jstor.org

Harle, J. C. Gupta Sculpture: Indian Sculpture of the Fourth to the Sixth Centuries A.D. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press, 1974. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11, pls. 18 and 19, p. 36

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: pp. 108–109, fig. 36 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. 291 archive.org

Pal, Pratapaditya. The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Its Influence. [New York]: Asia Society in association with J. Weatherhill, 1978. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 4, p. 58

Harle, J. C. The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1986. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 72, p. 96

Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 132-133

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).

The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Its Influence. Asia House Galleries, New York City, NY (organizer) (October 5-December 3, 1978); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (January 1-February 25, 1979); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (March 24-May 6, 1979).

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