Head of a Buddha
Art of Greater India, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, March 1-April 16, 1950, no. 32 as Head of Buddha.
Indian Buddhist Sculpture in American Collections, Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, February 27-March 31, 1968, no. 3 as Small Head of Buddha.
Art of India, University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Minneapolis, June 23-August 23, 1969, no. 4 as Head of a Buddha.
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), 139, fig. 2, (repro.).
Henry Trubner, “A Group of Indian Sculpture from Mathura,” The Art Quarterly 13 (Autumn 1950): 288, 291, fig. 8, (repro.).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art of Greater India: 3000 B.C.-2800 A.D., edited by Henry Trubner, exh. cat. (Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum, 1950), 21, plate 32, (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), 222, (repro.)
W. E. Begley, Indian Buddhist Sculpture in American Collections, exh. cat. (Louisville, KY: J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1968), unpaginated.
University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Art of India: Sculpture and Miniature Paintings, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1969), 8, 19, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 119, (repro.).
Swinton, Elizabeth de Sabato, “An Early Image of the Buddha,” Worcester Art Museum Journal 8 (1984-86): fig. 8, (repro.).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 376, (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 258, fig. 2, (repro.).
