The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 29, 2023

Winged Atlas

c. AD 100s–200s

Pakistan, Gandhara, Kushan Period

(1st Century-320)

Gray schist

Overall: 18.2 cm (7 3/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1924.330

Location

not on view

Provenance
? at least by 1922–1923
Alexander Scott [1854–1925], New York, NY
? by 1923–1924
(Hagop Kevorkian [1872–1962], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1924–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Scott, Alexander. On View: An Important Collection of Ancient Indian Sculptures at the Henry Reinhardt & Son Inc Galleries. New York: The Galleries, 1922. Reproduced: p. 32
Sizer, Theodore and Frederic Allen Whiting. “The Graeco-Buddhist Sculpture in the Dudley P. Allen Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 12, no. 1, 1925, pp. 11–16. Reproduced: p. 12 www.jstor.org
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. 97, p. 184
Exhibition history

An Important Collection of Ancient Indian and Graeco-Buddhist Sculptures. The Henry Reinhardt & Son Inc. Galleries, New York, NY (March 5–19, 1922).

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

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