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 evokes 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]
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Artist | Thomas Anshutz |
Year | 1907 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Subject | Rebecca H. Whelen |
Dimensions | 147.3 cm × 111.4 cm (58.0 in × 43.9 in) |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
Accession | 1993.324 |
Anshutz'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]
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