Seated Shakyamuni Buddha
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University of Michigan, 1950.
Arts of the Tang Dynasty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 8-February 17, 1957.
Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art, October-December 1957.
Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, Chinese Art Society of America, China House, New York City, May 6-June 5, 1959.
Oriental art exhibition, Washington University, St. Louis, January 23-March 4, 1966.
With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by April 1946 [1];
Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946 [2].
NOTES:
[1] Piacentini was an Italian art historian based in Tokyo after the Second World War. He studied Italian Renaissance art, while collecting and dealing in Asian objects.
[2] Acquisition documents in the Nelson-Atkins files record that Curator of Asian Art Laurence Sickman purchased this object when he was stationed in Tokyo while serving with the U.S. Army’s Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section after World War II. See "Objects Acquired for the Museum by Laurence Sickman," Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Records, series 9, box 11.
Chinese Buddhist Bronzes: A Loan Exhibition Under The Joint Auspices of Department of Fine Arts, Freer Fund and Museum of Art, April 13-May 7, 1950 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan, 1950), no. 48, fig. 13 (repro.).
The Arts of the T’ang Dynasty: A Loan Exhibition Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum from Collections in America, the Orient and Europe, January 8-February 17, 1957 (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1957) , no. 62 (repro.).
Art in Asia and The West: An Exhibition to Illustrate Varied Aspects of Asian Traditions and Their Importance For Art in the West: Honoring The 6th National Conference of The United States National Commission for Unesco. October 28-December 1, 1957 (San Francisco the Museum, 1957), 33, no. 16d (repro.).
Chinese Buddhist Bronzes: A Loan Exhibition May 5-May 31, 1959 (New York: Chinese Art Society of America, 1959), no.6 (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), 187 (repro.).
Mario Bussagli, Bronzi Cinesi (Milano: Fabbri, 1966), 146, pl. 67 (repro.).
Hugo Munsterberg, Chinese Buddhist Bronzes (Rutland, Vermont: C.E. Tuttle, 1967), pl.11(repro.).
Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 33 (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), 305 (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), 316 (repro.).
