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A Rose
ArtistThomas Anshutz
Year1907
MediumOil on canvas
SubjectRebecca H. Whelen
Dimensions147.3 cm × 111.4 cm (58.0 in × 43.9 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Accession1993.324

A Rose is an early 20th-century painting by American artist Thomas Anshutz. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts a young woman, Rebecca H. Whelen, sitting in a chair wearing a rose-colored dress. The painting - in keeping with artistic themes of the early 20th-century - compares a woman and her attire to a rose flower, but also invokes the sense that the young woman is intellectually and emotionally alert. Whelen herself was the daughter of a trustee of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at which Anshutz was a long-time teacher.[1]

Anshitz's work has been compared to that of his contemporary Thomas Eakins (specifically Eakins' 1900 portrait The Thinker) and to Diego Velázquez.[2]

A Rose is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "A Rose". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-05-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Tinterow, Gary, and Geneviève Lacambre, with Deborah L. Roldán, Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Jeannine Baticle, Marcus B. Burke, Ignacio Cano Rivero, Mitchell A. Codding, Trevor Fairbrother, María de los Santos García Felguera, Stéphane Guégan, Ilse Hempel Lipschutz, Dominique Lobstein, Javier Portús Pérez, H. Barbara Weinberg, and Matthias Weniger (2003). Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 277, 278