Śakti with Two Female Attendants

Due to stylistic similarities, scholars have suggested this stele is from the Surya (Sun) Temple at Konarak, Odisha (formerly transliterated as “Orissa”). Likely by November 1960, acquired by Earl and Irene Morse (New York, NY); 1972, gifted by Earl and Irene Morse (New York, NY) to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]. [Last researched by Chazen staff October 2023]

• Elvehjem Art Center. "Bulletin 1972-1973." Madison: Elvehjem Art Center (1973). illus. no. 21
• Fogg Art Museum. "Indian Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse." Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum, 1963. p. 19, no. 21
• Folan, Lucie, "Wisdom of the Goddess: Uncovering the Provenance of a Twelfth-Century Indian Sculpture at the National Gallery of Australia," Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals vol. 15, no. 1 (2019), pp. 5-41. p. 25, fig. 5

• New Acquisitions from the Far East: Elvehjem Art Center, 11/5/1973–1/6/1974
• Indian Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse: Fogg Art Museum, 5/20/1963–8/3/1963

• Asia
• Sculpture

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