Water-Moon Guanyin (Shuiyue Guanyin)
1400
Physical Qualities
Metal alloy, originally gilded, with blue and red pigment, 61 3/4 x 41 x 33 in. (156.8 x 104.2 x 83.8 cm.); weight estimated at 1,000 lbs.
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1944.80
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1944; Tonying & Co., New York
"The Baltimore Museum of Art News," May 1944.
"The Sunday Sun," 'Magazine (Rotogravure) Section,' Aug. 15, 1954, ill.
"The Sunday Sun," 'Magazine (Rotogravure) Section,' Oct. 30, 1955, ill.
"A Picture Book," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, p. 89, ill.
"Innovative Programs," BMA Today, Spring 2009, p. 16, ill.
Helen Buss Mitchell, "Roots of Wisdom, A Tapestry of Philosophical Traditions," 6th ed., Boston: Wadsworth Cenage Learning, 2011, p. 164, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.
BMA Today, issue 159 (winter/spring 2019): p. 12.
"Water-Moon Guanyin," BMA Today, no. 168, Spring 2022, p. 3, ill
BMA Today, no 168 (summer 2022): p. 3.
On View: Levy Gallery 2
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