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Green Tara

c. 1260s

Central Tibet

Thangka; gum tempera, ink, and gold on sized cotton

Painting: 52.4 x 43.2 cm (20 5/8 x 17 in.); Overall: 107 x 65 cm (42 1/8 x 25 9/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund by exchange 1970.156

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The tiny monastic figure under Green Tara's right hand commissioned the painting.

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1970-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1970." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 2 (1971): 22-71. Mentioned: no. 70, p. 157 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. 297 archive.org

Orientations, vol. 20, October 1989. Reproduced: cover and fig. 17, p. 42

Rhie, Marylin M., and Robert A. F. Thurman. Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. Reproduced: fig. 14, p. 51

Singer, Jane Casey. "Early Tankas: Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries," Marg: A Magazine of the Arts (Sept. 1996), pp. 28-29. Reproduced: fig. 11

Fisher, Robert E. Art of Tibet. London; New York: Thames & Hudson, 1997. Reproduced: fig. 112, pp. 134-135

Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. Reproduced: pp. 158-159

Kossak, Steven, Jane Casey Singer, and Robert Bruce-Gardner. Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. Reproduced: no. 37, pp. 144-146 libmma.contentdm.oclc.org

Kossak, Steven, Jane Casey Singer, Robert Bruce-Gardner, and Michael Henss. Geheime Visionen: frühe Malerei aus Zentraltibet [=Sacred visions : early paintings from Central Tibet]. Zürich: Museum Rietberg, 1999. Reproduced: cat. no. 37, pp. 144-146

May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 101, p. 91, 119

Blezer, Henk and John Ardussi, eds. Impressions of Bhutan and Tibetan Art: Tibetan Studies III. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Reproduced: pl. 42

Czuma, Stanislaw, "Great Acquisitions and Southeast Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art," Orientations (Jan/Feb 2005), vol. 36, no. 1. Reproduced: pp. 86-87

Jackson, David Paul, and Christian Luczanits. Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet: from the Masterworks of Tibetan Painting Series. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2011. Reproduced: p 12, fig 1.8

Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. Reproduced: pp. 104-105

Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 33

Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterworks on Loan: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art: April through June 2016. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. Reproduced: p. 22

"Stories from Storage." The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 24, no. 5: 6-7. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 6-7

Mace, Sonya Rhie. “Asian Art: Green Tara and the Art of Protection.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 24. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 24.

Exhibition history

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 239). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 18, 2013-June 30, 2014).

Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 4-November 7, 2016).

Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).

Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (October 5, 1998-January 17, 1999); Museum Rietberg, Zürich (February 14-May 16, 1999).

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

Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).

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