Shiva Nataraja, The Lord of Dance
Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art, October 28-December 1, 1957, no. 4q as Siva Nataraja.
Ancient Indian Sculpture and Painting, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, March 6-April 10, 1965, no. 14 as Siva Nataraja.
Master Bronzes of India, The Art Institute of Chicago, September 3-October 10, 1965; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 21-November 30, 1965; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, January 18-February 27, 1966; Asia House Gallery, New York, October 12-December 11, 1966, no. 48 as Shiva, Lord of the Dance (Shiva Nataraja).
The Cosmic Dancer: Shiva Nataraja, The Asia Society Galleries, New York, March 11-June 28, 1992; Honolulu Academy of Arts, September 16-October 25, 1992; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, February 7-April 11, 1993, no cat.
With C. T. Loo & Co., New York [1];
Grace Rainey Rogers (nee Rainey, 1867-1943), New York, by 1943;
Purchased at her posthumous sale, Notable French Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, Paintings and Drawings, Tapestries, Oriental Rugs, and Objects of Art from the Collection of the Late Grace Rainey Rogers, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, November 18-19, 1943, no. 298 as Indian Bronze Statuette of Siva as Nataraja, Cosmic Dancer, by C. T. Loo & Co., New York, NLPF-43/817, 1943-1950 [2];
Purchased from C. T. Loo & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1950.
[1] The Parke-Bernet Galleries sale catalog for the 1943 Grace Rainey Rogers sale identifies C. T. Loo, New York in the provenance history.
[2] See C. T. Loo and Company inventory cards, Musée Guimet, Paris.
“Masterpiece of the Month,” in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts Gallery News 17, no. 5 (February 1951), (repro.).
“Indian Sculpture in Bronze,” in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts Gallery News 24, no. 9 (June-July 1957), (repro.).
San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in Asia and the West, exh. cat. (San Francisco, California: H. S. Crocker Co., Inc., 1957), 16, 31, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 235, (repro.).
Alan W. Watts, The Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity (New York: George Braziller, 1963), plate 21, (repro.).
Theodore Bowie, Ancient Indian Sculpture and Painting, exh. cat. (Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum, 1965), unpaginated.
Art Institute of Chicago and William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Master Bronzes of India, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), unpaginated, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 139, (repro.).
Fred H. Smith, “Choosing Faith and Evolution,” in Touchstone: The Magazine of the Tennessee Humanities Council no. 10 (1987): 8, (repro.).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 385, (repro.).
Hugh Honour and John Fleming, A World History of Art, 4th ed. (London: Fleming-Honour Ltd, 1995), 219, fig. 6,47, (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 272, fig. 44, (repro.).