Jalandhara Ragaputra, from a Ragamala series

Bilaspur school To 1947 Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), Colombo, Sri Lanka, London, England, and Needham, Massachusetts [1] To 1984 Galleria, San Francisco, California [2] From 1984 to 2018 Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, purchased in June 1984 from Galleria [3] From 2018 Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glyn Benkaim [4] Notes: [1] Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy was born in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and moved to England for his education in 1879. He attended university in London, graduating with degrees in geology and botany in 1900. He then returned to Ceylon and pursued a career in mineralogy, earning a doctorate in 1906. He was active from 1907 until his death in 1947 in Needham, Massachusetts. In 1910, however, his interests shifted to Indian and Sri Lankan culture, and he moved to America to serve as curator of Indian art and as a researcher of Indian and Middle Eastern art for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Because he spent the second half of his life in the U.S., it is highly unlikely that any art from his personal collection would have a contested provenance. [2] See Acquisition Justification Form, object file, Collections Management Office. [3] See note 2. [4] See note 2. National Museum of Asian Art Collection Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) Galleria Catherine Glynn Benkaim