Head of the Buddha
Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art, October 28-December 1, 1957, no. 2b as Head of Buddha.
With Spink & Son, London, by 1929;
Purchased from Spink & Son by the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) Museum, Philadelphia, no. 29-68-2, 1929-1933;
Transferred from the Penn Museum to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933 [1].
NOTES:
[1] In 1931-32 the Nelson-Atkins co-sponsored an archaeological expedition to the Astarabad region of northeastern Iran. The partage agreement between the museums specified that if the value of the found objects did not match the dollar amount invested by the Nelson-Atkins, the Penn Museum would transfer objects from its own collection to the Nelson-Atkins to make up the difference. When the excavation failed to meet expectations, this was one of several objects transferred from the Penn Museum’s collection to the Nelson-Atkins.
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), 140, fig. 4, (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), 182, (repro.).
Baldwin H. Ward, ed., Pictorial History of the World (Wilton, CT: Year Pictorial Publications, 1956), 133, (repro.).
San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in Asia and the West, exh. cat. (San Francisco, California: H. S. Crocker Co., Inc., 1957), 12, 29, (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), 221, (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), 117, (repro.).
Denise Lardner Carmody and John Tully Carmody, Ways to the Center: an Introduction to World Religions, 3rd ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1989), 153, fig. 20, (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), 374, (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), 256-57, fig. 4, (repro.).
