Torso of a Buddha, probably Shakyamuni Buddha
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Arts of the Tang Dynasty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. January 8-February 17, 1957, no. 31.
Oriental art exhibition, Washington University, St. Louis. January 23-March 4, 1966.
The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Its Influence, Asia House Gallery, New York. October 5-December 3, 1978; Kimbell Art Museum, January 11-February 25, 1979; The Art Institute of Chicago, March 24-May 6, 1979, no. 93.
Probably from the Xian area, Shaanxi Province;
North China Art Trading Co.
Purchased from North China Art Trading Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
Laurence Sickman and Alexander Soper, The Art and Architecture of China. The Pelican History of Art. (Harmodsmorth, 1956, 1960, 1968), pl. 45; paperback ed., (1971), 124, fig. 82 (repro.).
The Art of the T’ang Dynasty, (Los Angles County Museum, 1957), Cat. 31 (repro.).
Wai-kam Ho, “Three Seated Stone Buddhas” The Cleveland Museum of Art bulletin (April, 1966), 86a, fig. 7 (repro.).
Wai-kam Ho, “Notes on Chinese Sculpture from Northern Ch’i to Sui: Part I” Archives of Asian Art New York: Asia Society, vol. XXII, (1968-69): 12, fig. 81 (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), 36 (repro.).
Pratapaditya Pal, The Ideal Image: the Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Influence (New York: Asia Society, 1978), 137, no. 93(repro.).
William Watson, L’Art de l’Ancienne Chine (Paris: Editions d’Art Lucien Mazenod, 1979), 420, no. 419 (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), 306 (repro.).
Matsubara Saburō 松原三郎, Chūgoku Bukkyō chōkoku shiron 中国仏教彫刻史論 (Tōkyō : Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, Heisei 7 1995), Plate Vol. II, 369b (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), 318, fig. 106 (repro.).
