Thomas P. Anshutz / A Rose / 1907

Thomas P. Anshutz
A Rose
1907
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Creator Name: Anshutz, Thomas Pollock
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1851-1912
Creator Name-CRT: Thomas P. Anshutz
Title: A Rose
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1907
Creation End Date: 1907
Creation Date: 1907
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 58 x 43 7/8 in. (147.3 x 111.4 cm); Framed: 68 1/2 x 54 1/8 x 3 3/4 in.
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 1993.324
Credit Line: Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 1993
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

One of the most gifted American art teachers, Anshutz links the realism of his mentor Thomas Eakins with that of the Ashcan School, some of whom were his students. Perhaps because Anshutz spent so much time teaching, he painted only about 130 oils. Some of the most impressive belong to a series of images of Rebecca H. Whelen, daughter of a trustee of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where Anshutz taught. The woman at leisure and the likening of a beautiful woman to a flower are common themes in late-nineteenth-century American painting. They reflect the contemporary definition of a woman's proper sphere: the realm of leisure, beauty, and the aesthetic, harmonious domestic environment. 'A Rose' reflects Anshutz's simultaneous appreciation of Eakins's academic rigor and psychological probing and John Singer Sargent's painterly freedom. 'A Rose' also suggests the influence of Diego Velázquez and James McNeill Whistler on late-nineteenth-century painters, including Eakins and Sargent as well as Anshutz. In portraying the young woman as contemplative and yet intellectually and emotionally alert, Anshutz also anticipates the earthier women painted by members of the Ashcan School and other twentieth-century realists.

AMICA ID: MMA_.1993.324
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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