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Standing Buddha

6th century or later

Chinese

Limestone

50 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

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

43.15

Provenance: Yamanaka & 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

Now on view at the Asian Art Museum

Resources

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.

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