Seated Maitreya
Art of India, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, February–March, 1949, no cat.
Indian Buddhist Sculpture in American Collections, Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, February 27-March 31, 1968, no. 27, as Small Seated Bodhisattva (Maitreya?).
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.
W. E. Begley, Indian Buddhist Sculpture in American Collections, exh. cat. (Louisville, KY: J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1968), unpaginated.
