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Yakshi (Nature Spirit)

CultureIndian
Date2nd century C.E.
MediumRed sandstone
DimensionsOverall: 18 1/4 × 9 inches (46.36 × 22.86 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number62-57
On View
On view
Description
Exhibition History

Art of India and Southeast Asia: An Exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, May 17-June 14, 1964, no. 33 as Yaksi.

 

Oriental Exhibition, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, January 23-March 11, 1966, no cat.

Provenance

With Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, by 1962;

Purchased from Heeramaneck Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 1962.

Published References

Krannert Art Musuem, Art of India and Southeast Asia: An Exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum, exh. cat. (Champaign: College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, 1964), 33, (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), 118, (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), 376, (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), 258, (repro.).

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