The Remarkable Mr. John Gilmore Ford (1928-2024) of Baltimore and Some Remarks on the Famous “Ford Tārā”

Figure 1: Green Tara
Tibetan (Artist)
1160s-1180s
tempera on cloth
H 48 x W: 31 ½ in.
(Tibet)

Walters Art Museum F.112
Promised gift of John and Berthe Ford

Detail 1, inscription on back of painting:

The images of the two historical inscriptions on on the lining of the brocade border at the back of the thangka can be found in Jane Casey, “Tara Who Protects from the Eight Great Fears: On the Origins and History of an Early Tibetan Masterwork,” Project Himalayan Art, Rubin Museum of Art, 2023, http://rubinmuseum.org/projecthimalayanart/essays/tara-who-protects-from-the-eight-great-fears, Fig. 6 and 7.

The illustrations are
https://rubinmuseum.org/projecthimalayanart/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/essays/27/Object-027_Fig-6.jpg
And
https://rubinmuseum.org/projecthimalayanart/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/essays/27/Object-027_Fig-7.jpg