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Rajas, Wrestlers & Renuciants: Portraits from Asia

March 15 – February 28, 2016

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Bejeweled Indian princes, muscled Japanese sumo wrestlers, stately Chinese and Korean scholars and shaven-headed Tibetan, Japanese, Korean and Philippine monks - just a few of the kinds of portraits highlighted in the latest thematic rotation.

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New Georgia, Solomon Islands

Portrait of a Kesoko Sea Spirit, 19th century

China, Ming Dynasty

Arhat, Disciple of the Historical Buddha (lived ca. 6th century BC), 1368-1644

Arhats Pindola Bharadvaja and Chudapanthaka, 14th century

Guru Rinpoche (lived ca. 8th century) Founder of the Nyingma Order, 16th century

Red Hat Lama Nyingma Order, 18th or 19th cenutry

Japan, Meiji Period

Sumo Wrestler Ichinoya Totaro, (1856-1923), 1875-1912

Sakya Pandita, Kunga Gyaltsen (1235-1280) Sakya and Gelug Orders, 18th century

Jodhpur, Marwar, India

Enthroned Maharaja Abhai Singh (1702-49) with Attendants, 1725-1750

Portrait of Raja Singh I (1661-81) with his successor Kunwar Jai Singh (1681-1700), 17th century

Japan, Meiji Period

Sumo Wrestler Umegatani Tōtarō I (1845-1928) The 15th Grand Champion (Yokozuna) , 1868-1912

Portrait of an Elder with Confucian Hat , Early 20th century

Gelug Order Pandit with Book, 18th century

Guru Rinpoche Embracing Yeshe Tsogyal Nyingma Order, 17th century

Drukpa Kagyu Order Monk Gyawa Gotsangpa (1189-1258), 16th-17th centuries

Ngor Pal Evam Choden Monastery, Southern Tibet

Sonam Gyaltsen with Sakya Order Teaching Lineages, ca. 1667

Guru Rinpoche (lived ca. 8th century) Founder of the Nyingma Order, 16th century

Japan, Meiji Period

Sumo Wrestler, 1869-1912

Jaipur Rajasthan, India

Portrait of Maharaja Nathji , 1874

Laozi (老子) Riding a Buffalo, late 19th-early 20th century

Japan, Meiji Period

Rishiki Umegatani Totaro From the Series, “Personalities of Recent Times” (Kinsei jimbutsushi), 1887

Japan, Edo Period (1615-1868)

Memorial Portrait of Kuniyoshi, 1861

Japan, Meiji Period

Sumo Wrestlers in the Ring with Referee and Audience, 1868-1912

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New Georgia, Solomon Islands

Portrait of a Kesoko Sea Spirit, 19th century

China, Ming Dynasty

Arhat, Disciple of the Historical Buddha (lived ca. 6th century BC), 1368-1644

Arhats Pindola Bharadvaja and Chudapanthaka, 14th century

Guru Rinpoche (lived ca. 8th century) Founder of the Nyingma Order, 16th century

Red Hat Lama Nyingma Order, 18th or 19th cenutry

Japan, Meiji Period

Sumo Wrestler Ichinoya Totaro, (1856-1923), 1875-1912

Sakya Pandita, Kunga Gyaltsen (1235-1280) Sakya and Gelug Orders, 18th century

Jodhpur, Marwar, India

Enthroned Maharaja Abhai Singh (1702-49) with Attendants, 1725-1750

Portrait of Raja Singh I (1661-81) with his successor Kunwar Jai Singh (1681-1700), 17th century

Japan, Meiji Period

Sumo Wrestler Umegatani Tōtarō I (1845-1928) The 15th Grand Champion (Yokozuna) , 1868-1912

Portrait of an Elder with Confucian Hat , Early 20th century

Gelug Order Pandit with Book, 18th century

Guru Rinpoche Embracing Yeshe Tsogyal Nyingma Order, 17th century

Drukpa Kagyu Order Monk Gyawa Gotsangpa (1189-1258), 16th-17th centuries

Ngor Pal Evam Choden Monastery, Southern Tibet

Sonam Gyaltsen with Sakya Order Teaching Lineages, ca. 1667

Guru Rinpoche (lived ca. 8th century) Founder of the Nyingma Order, 16th century

Japan, Meiji Period

Sumo Wrestler, 1869-1912

Jaipur Rajasthan, India

Portrait of Maharaja Nathji , 1874

Laozi (老子) Riding a Buffalo, late 19th-early 20th century

Japan, Meiji Period

Rishiki Umegatani Totaro From the Series, “Personalities of Recent Times” (Kinsei jimbutsushi), 1887

Japan, Edo Period (1615-1868)

Memorial Portrait of Kuniyoshi, 1861

Japan, Meiji Period

Sumo Wrestlers in the Ring with Referee and Audience, 1868-1912

New Georgia, Solomon Islands

Portrait of a Kesoko Sea Spirit, 19th century

Guru Rinpoche Embracing Yeshe Tsogyal Nyingma Order, 17th century

Ngor Pal Evam Choden Monastery, Southern Tibet

Sonam Gyaltsen with Sakya Order Teaching Lineages, ca. 1667

Red Hat Lama Nyingma Order, 18th or 19th cenutry

Jaipur Rajasthan, India

Portrait of Maharaja Nathji , 1874

Laozi (老子) Riding a Buffalo, late 19th-early 20th century

Japan, Edo Period (1615-1868)

Memorial Portrait of Kuniyoshi, 1861

Portrait of an Elder with Confucian Hat , Early 20th century

Gelug Order Pandit with Book, 18th century

Drukpa Kagyu Order Monk Gyawa Gotsangpa (1189-1258), 16th-17th centuries

Guru Rinpoche (lived ca. 8th century) Founder of the Nyingma Order, 16th century

Japan, Meiji Period

Sumo Wrestler, 1869-1912

Sakya Pandita, Kunga Gyaltsen (1235-1280) Sakya and Gelug Orders, 18th century

Japan, Meiji Period

Rishiki Umegatani Totaro From the Series, “Personalities of Recent Times” (Kinsei jimbutsushi), 1887

Japan, Meiji Period

Sumo Wrestler Umegatani Tōtarō I (1845-1928) The 15th Grand Champion (Yokozuna) , 1868-1912

China, Ming Dynasty

Arhat, Disciple of the Historical Buddha (lived ca. 6th century BC), 1368-1644

Arhats Pindola Bharadvaja and Chudapanthaka, 14th century

Guru Rinpoche (lived ca. 8th century) Founder of the Nyingma Order, 16th century

Japan, Meiji Period

Sumo Wrestler Ichinoya Totaro, (1856-1923), 1875-1912

Jodhpur, Marwar, India

Enthroned Maharaja Abhai Singh (1702-49) with Attendants, 1725-1750

Portrait of Raja Singh I (1661-81) with his successor Kunwar Jai Singh (1681-1700), 17th century

Japan, Meiji Period

Sumo Wrestlers in the Ring with Referee and Audience, 1868-1912

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