Sundarar, a Shaiva Saint
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.
Dr. Haniel, Cologne, Germany [1];
With Spink and Son, London, by November 10, 1944-May 15, 1945 [2];
Purchased from Spink and Son by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1945.
NOTES:
[1] “Dr. Haniel of Cologne” is given as a former owner of the sculpture on Spink & Son’s invoice. This may be collector Franz Haniel (1883-1965).
[2] According to R. Forrer, Manager, Spink & Son Ltd., in a letter to Lindsay Hughes, Acting Curator of Asian Art, April 4, 1945, Spink & Son had sent a letter to their shippers on November 10, 1944 with shipping instructions for this sculpture, but the letter was never received. Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG92 Lindsay Hughes Papers, box 1, folder 20.
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.).
