Fragment of a Railing Pillar Depicting a Yakshi (Nature Spirit)
With Imre Schwaiger (1868–1940), Delhi, India, by 1935 [1];
Purchased from Schwaiger, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.
NOTES:
[1] Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG01/01 Director's Office Records, Paul Gardner, box 4, folder 41, 1935 Sickman purchases en route. Before Laurence Sickman assumed his role as Curator of Asian Art in June 1935, he traveled through South Asia and the Middle East on his way from China to the U.S. This is one of several objects he purchased in Delhi from Hungarian-born dealer Schwaiger during this trip.
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), 138-139, fig. 1, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 223, (repro.).
V. P. Dwivedi, “Mathura Art in the Museums of United States America,” Journal of Indian Museums 29 (1973): 28, fig. 9, (repro.).
