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Rama, an Avatar of Vishnu

CultureIndian
Date15th-16th century
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 31 1/2 × 10 1/4 × 10 1/4 inches (80.01 × 26.04 × 26.04 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-4
On View
Not on view
Exhibition History

Hindu Sculpture, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, January 25-March 2, 1952, no cat.

Art of India and Southeast Asia, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, Champaign, May 17-June 14, 1964, no. 64 as Rama.

The Art of India, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, November 20, 1971-March 12, 1972, no cat.

Provenance

With C. T. Loo & Co., New York, possibly stock no. J.214, by November 1933-1934 [1];

Purchased from C. T. Loo & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

NOTES:

[1] This may be the "Standing bronze figure, Hindu" lent by Loo to the Nelson-Atkins for the museum's opening in December 1933. The description is included in a letter from Marion W. Riepe, C. T. Loo & Co., to Paul Gardner, Director, November 28, 1933, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG01/01, Director’s Office Records – Gardner, Box 1, Folder 28, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

Published References

Krannert Art Museum, Art of India and Southeast Asia, exh. cat (Champaign: College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, 1964), 48-49, fig. 64, (repro.).

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