Luohan
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Japanese Exhibition, The Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS, March - April 1961.
With C. T. Loo & Co., Paris, by July 8, 1933-1934 [1];
Purchased from C. T. Loo & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-05 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Records, box 9, folder 39. This was one of a large group of objects sent by Loo from Paris for the Nelson-Atkins' opening exhibition in December 1933. It was acquired by the museum after the close of the exhibition.
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Art Digest, vol. 14, no. 7 (December 15, 1938), Ills (repro.).
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 114, fig. 14 (repro.).
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 155 (repro.).
Laurence Sickman, Alexander Soper, Art and Architecture of China (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1956), pl. 81B (repro.).
Dietrich Seckel, Buddhistische Kunst Ostasiens (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1957), fig. 91 (repro.).
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