Painting and Sculpture

A Rose

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. Anshutz's work has been compared to that of his contemporary Thomas Eakins (specifically Eakins' 1900 portrait The Thinker) and to Diego Velázquez. A Rose is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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• ▸Morning Sun (painting)
• ▸Brodiaea
• ▸Eliza Barchus

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