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Arhat (holy men): three from the Five Hundred Arhat

Arhat (holy men): three from the Five Hundred Arhat

ca. 1687 - 95

Japanese

Wood, dry lacquer and gold, with colors (applied later)
32 x 21 x 20 1/2 in. (81.28 x 53.34 x 52.07 cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
35.74
location
Not currently on view

Resources

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. 129

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. 9, p. 21.

Lee, Sherman. "Six of Five Hundred Rakan." The Art Quarterly, Vol. X, 1947, p. 125-132.

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