Head of a Buddha
Paul Gardner (1894–1972), San Patricio, NM, by 1961[1];
Purchased from Gardner by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1961.
NOTES:
[1] In the curatorial files, correspondence between Paul Gardner and Laurence Sickman in 1961 documents the purchase.
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), 128, (repro.).
Denise Lardner Carmody and John Tully Carmondy, Ways to the Center: An Introduction to World Religions (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1981), 140, fig. 17, (repro.).
Denise Lardner Carmody and John Tully Carmondy, Ways to the Center: An Introduction to World Religions, 3rd ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1989), 125, fig. 17, (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), 375, (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), 257, fig. 6, (repro.).
