Standing Buddha

ca. 565-577

Marble

71 7/16 x 19 1/2 in. (181.5 x 49.5 cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

43.99

Provenance: Yamanaka & Co., Inc, United States, to 1942; [liquidation sale by Alien Property Custodian, Yamanaka & Co., Inc., 1943, lot 407]; purchased from Yamanaka Liquidation Sale by Seattle Art Museum, 1943

Now on view at the Asian Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 50 Years: A Legacy of Asian Art, June 30, 1983 – May 30, 1984.

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

Published ReferencesTrubner, Henry, William Jay Rathbun, Catherine A. Kaputa. Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum: A Selection and Catalogue. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1973; p. 149, no. 95, ill.

Kiley, Brendan. "Seattle Asian Art Museum is set to reopen – 3 years and $56 million later." Seattle Times, February 2, 2020: p. E1, reproduced. [A version of this article appears online on January 30, 2020 with the headline: "Step inside the reinvented Seattle Asian Art Museum, set to reopen after 3 years," https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/three-years-and-56-million-later-seattle-asian-art-museum-is-reinvented-and-set-to-reopen.]

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