Skip Ribbon Commands
Skip to main content
Seattle Art Museum (SAM)
menu

Head of a Hindu deity, either Vishnu or Surya

Head of a Hindu deity, either Vishnu or Surya

7th century

Sandstone
15 x 7 3/4 x 8 7/16 in. (38.1 x 19.69 x 21.43 cm)
Overall h.: 22 1/4 in.
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
67.107
Provenance: [William H. Wolff, Inc., New York]; purchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum (Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection), September 1, 1967
location
Now on view at the Asian Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.

Published ReferencesFoong, Ping, Xiaojin Wu, and Darielle Mason. "An Asian Art Museum Transformed." Orientations vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 2020): p. 58, reproduced fig. 18 (installation view).

Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future.

Learn more about Equity at SAM