Birds and Beasts in a Flowery Landscape
International Exhibition of Persian Art, London, Royal Academy, January 7-February 28, 1931, no. 61 [580] as Calligraphic Drawing. (Note: 61 is the catalog number; 580 is the exhibition number.)
Exhibition of Persian Art, The Iranian Institute, New York, April 15-May 15, 1940, gallery 7, case 96, no. E as Miniature (Tinted drawing; birds and beasts in a flowerly landscape).
Islamic Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 3, 1944-February 4, 1945, hors cat.
Islamic Painting from American Collections, The School of Art and The Department of Religion, Syracuse University, April 6-26, 1967, no. 28 as Landscape with Animals.
Islamic Art Across the World, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, June 18-October 1, 1970, no. 83 as Birds and Beasts in a Flowery Landscape.
Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 31, 2013-April 27, 2013, no cat.
Armenag Bey Sakisian, Paris, by 1931 [1];
With Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York, by 1938;
Purchased from Hagop Kevorkian by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1943.
[1] Armenag Bey Sakisian was an Armenian archaeologist and art historian who lived in Paris and worked extensively in Syria and the surrounding region.
Armenag Sakisian, “La Miniature a l’Exposition d’Art Persan de Burlington House,” in Syria 12, no. 2 (1931): 166, pl. 32, (repro.).
Persian Art: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Exhibition of Persian Art at Burlington House London, exh. cat. (London: Hudson and Kearns Ltd. for the Executive Committee of the Exhibition, 1931), 40, no. 580, (repro.).
Laurence Binson, J. V. S. Wilkinson, and Basil Gray, Persian Miniature Painting including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House January-March, 1931 (London: Oxford University Press, 1933), 74.
Armenag Sakisian, “Persian Drawings,” in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 69 (July-December 1936): 19-20, pl. 1A, (repro.).
Arthur Upham Pope, A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, vol. 3 Text, The Art of the Book, Textiles, Carpets, Metalwork, Minor Arts (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), 1883.
Arthur Upham Pope, A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, vol. 5 Plates 511-980, Architectural Ornament, Pottery and Faience, The Art of the Book (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), pl. 914B, (repro.).
Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, exh. cat. (New York: The Iranian Institute, 1940), 204.
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), 175, (repro.).
Richard Ettinghausen, “Some Paintings in Four Istanbul Albums,” in Ars Orientalis: The Arts of Islam and the East 1 (1954): 91n4.
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), 250, (repro.).
Oleb Grabar, Persian Art: Before and After the Mongol Conquest, exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1959), 35, 60, (repro.).
Ernst J. Grube, Islamic Painting from American Collections, exh. cat. (Syracuse, The School of Art, Syracuse University, 1967), 28.
Theodore Robert Bowie, Islamic Art Across the World, exh. cat. (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana Unversity Art Museum, 1970), 35, 60, fig. 83, (repro.).
Laurence Binyon, J. V. S. Wilkinson, and Basil Gray, Persian Miniature Painting Including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House January-March, 1931, exh. cat. (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1971), 74.
Lindsey Hughes Cooper, “Genius and Invention: Artists and Artisans in Iran,” in Apollo 97, no. 3 (March 1973): 94-95, fig. 12, (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), 162, (repro.).
Mark Zebrowski, Deccani Painting (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983), 170-172, fig. 136, (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), 403, (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), 29, fig. 20, (repro.).
