Lintel Fragment with Indra on his Three-Headed Elephant
Mount: 2 5/8 × 16 3/4 × 5 1/8 inches (6.67 × 42.55 × 13.02 cm)
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Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art, October 28-December 1, 1957, no. 8d as Indra Riding on his Three-Headed Elephant, Airavata.
Khmer Sculpture, Asia House Gallery, New York, New York, November 30, 1961-January 28, 1962, no. 5K as Indra on his Three-headed Elephant.
Ancient Cambodian Sculpture, Asia House Gallery, New York, October 9-December 7, 1969, no. 18 as Part of a Lintel with Indra on the Three-headed Elephant Airavata.
Origins: Collecting to Create the Nelson-Atkins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 14, 2021-March 6, 2022.
With C. T. Loo & Co., Paris and New York, stock no. LH-215, by March 1948-March 1949 [1];
Purchased from C. T. Loo, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1949.
NOTES:
[1] C. T. Loo/Frank Caro archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy of stock card in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. C. T. Loo & Co. was incorporated as C. T. Loo, Inc. in 1949.
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), 194, (repro.).
San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in Asia and the West, exh. cat. (San Francisco, California: H. S. Crocker Co., Inc., 1957), 18, (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), 241, (repro.).
Asia House Gallery, Khmer Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: Carnegie Press, Inc., 1961), 22-23, (repro.).
Sherman E. Lee, Ancient Cambodian Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: The Asia Society, Inc., 1969), 55, 104-5, (repro.).
Laurence Sickman, “Stone Sculpture of India and South-East Asia,” Apollo, 97 (March 1973): 85, fig. 5, (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), 148, (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), 391, (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), 281, (repro.).
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Kimberly Masteller, Masterworks from India and Southeast Asia: the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kanas City, Missouri: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with University of Washington Press, 2016), 50-51, (repro.).
