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Surya, the Sun God

CultureIndian
Dateca. 600 C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 6 3/4 × 2 1/2 inches (17.15 × 6.35 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number54-75
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 228
Exhibition History

Art of Greater India, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, March 1-April 16, 1950, no. 57 as Surya.

Bronzes of India and Greater India, The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, November 2-30, 1955, no. 1 as Surya.

Provenance

With Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, by 1950;

Purchased from Heeramaneck Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1954.

Published References

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art of Greater India: 3000 B.C.-2800 A.D., edited by Henry Trubner, exh. cat. (Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum, 1950), 34, plate 57, (repro.).

“Oriental Art Recently Acquired by American Museums,” in Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 12 (1955): 87, fig. 22, (repro.).

Rhode Island School of Design. Bronzes of India and Greater India; an Exhibition Held the 2 till the 30 November, 1955 (Providence, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1955), 19.

Pratapaditya Pal, “The Rich Variety of the Indian Bronze,” in Apollo, 97 (March 1973): 76, fig. 4, (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), 122, (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), 378, (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), 261, fig. 13, (repro.).

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