Arhat (holy men): three from the Five Hundred Arhat
Date1684 - 1695
Maker
Japanese
Object number35.73
Exhibition HistoryPortland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Gift to a City: Masterworks from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection in the Seattle Art Museum, Nov. 3 - 28, 1965. Cat. no. 127.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Discovering Buddhist Art—Seeking the Sublime, July 9, 2003 - June 3, 2005.Published ReferencesFuller, Richard E. "Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum: An Historical Sketch." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1960 ("Presented in commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the United States of America"), no. 128
"Gift to a City" exhibition catalogue. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1965, cat. no. 127
Knight, Michael, "East Asian Lacquers in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1992, no. 18, pp. 24-25
Japundžić, Milica, "The Sculpture of Rakan by the Japanese Sculptor Shoun Genkei in the Mimara Museum." Zagreb: Croatia: Muzej Mimara, 2012. no. 10, p. 22.
Lee, Sherman. "Six of Five Hundred Rakan." The Art Quarterly, Vol. X, 1947, p. 125-132.Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions32 x 24 x 23 in. (81.3 x 61 x 58.4cm)
MediumWood, dry lacquer and gold, with colors (applied later)
Alexander Phimister Proctor
modeled 1891-1893; copyright 1897
Object number: 2015.15
Persian
12th to early 13th century
Object number: 38.139