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Sundarar, a Shaiva Saint

CultureIndian
Date15th-16th century
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 26 × 9 1/4 × 8 1/4 inches (66.04 × 23.5 × 20.96 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number45-18
On View
Not on view
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. 65 as Sundaramurtri-Svami.

Oriental Exhibition, Washington University Gallery of Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, January 23-March 4, 1966, no cat.

Provenance

With Spink and Son, London, by 1945;

Purchased from Spink and Son by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1945.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 189, (repro.).

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), 48, 67, (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), 387, (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), 272, (repro.).

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