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Adoring Attendant from a Buddhist Shrine

c. AD 300s–400s

Afghanistan, Gandhara, Kushan Period

(1st century-320)

Stucco

Overall: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.395

Location

242A Ancient India

Description

The medium of stucco became popular after the 4th century for works made for Buddhist sanctuaries, especially in the desert regions of Afghanistan where stone was less available. The more malleable material allowed sculptors to create sensitive and supplely modeled forms. The stucco sculptures were covered with a thin coat of lime-based whitewash, then painted; traces of original red pigment remain in some areas.

Provenance

at least by 1942–43

(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1943–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942. Mentioned: cat. no. 12, p. 22; Reproduced: cat. no. 12, p. 42

Hollis, Howard. “Central Asian Stucco Sculptures.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 32, no. 3, 1945, pp. 26–27. Mentioned: pp. 26-27; Reproduced: unpaginated www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 741 archive.org

Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. Reproduced: fig. 115, p. 103

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 229 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 229 archive.org

Hartman, Joan M. “New Oriental Galleries at the Cleveland Museum.” Oriental Art 16 (Autumn 1970): 282. Reproduced: pl. 2

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 288 archive.org

Heeramaneck, Alice N. Masterpieces of Indian Painting: From the Former Collections of Nasli M. Heeramaneck. Verona, Italy: A.N. Heeramaneck, 1984. Reproduced: cat. no. 17

Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982. Reproduced: fig. 126, p. 101

Czuma, Stanislaw J., and Rekha Morris. Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 122, p. 218

Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 116-117

Exhibition history

Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942).

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).

Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).

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