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Standing Buddha

Date6th century or later
Object number43.15
ProvenanceYamanaka & Co., Inc, United States, to 1942; [liquidation sale by Alien Property Custodian, Yamanaka & Co., Inc., 1943, lot 397]; purchased from Yamanaka Liquidation Sale by Seattle Art Museum, 1943
Exhibition HistoryLondon, England, Burlington House, International Exhibition of Chinese Art, November 28, 1935 - March 7, 1936. New York, New York, Asia Art Gallery, The Evolution Of The Buddha Image, 1963. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 50 Years: A Legacy of Asian Art, June 30, 1983 – May 30, 1984. Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Light of Asia: Buddha Sakyamuni in Asian Art, March 4 - May 20, 1984; The Art Institute of Chicago, June 30 - Aug. 26, 1984; The Brooklyn Museum, Nov. 1, 1984 - Feb. 10, 1985. Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, Distant Reverence: Buddhist Sculpture From The Seattle Art Museum, August 16 - October 22, 1989. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Discovering Buddhist Art - Seeking the Sublime, July 9, 2003 - June 3, 2005. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.Published ReferencesBurlington House, London. International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935 - 1936; cat. no. 476. Fuller, Richard E. Seattle Art Museum. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1946; p. 15. Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1951; p. 54 (b&w). Rowland, Benjamin. The Evolution Of The Buddha Image. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., with The Asia Society, Inc., 1963; pp. 94, 139, no. 45. Trubner, Henry, William Jay Rathbun, Catherine A. Kaputa. Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum: A Selection and Catalogue. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1973; p.150, no. 96, ill.
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions50 5/16 x 16 15/16 x 7 1/4 in. (127.8 x 43.1 x 18.42 cm) Overall h.: 152.4 cm Overall w.: 42.5 cm Overall diam.: 19 cm
MediumLimestone
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618-907
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late 4th - early 3rd century B.C.
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