A Rose
Artist: Thomas Anshutz (American, 1851–1912)
Original Dimensions: 58" x 43 7/8"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1907) "This portrait’s subject, Rebecca Whelen, was the daughter of a trustee of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where Anshutz taught for over thirty years. The elegant upper-class woman at leisure was a common theme in late nineteenth-century art, and her association with a fragile flower a popular trope. Anshutz’s sitter evokes that tradition but with a more dynamic presence. Having trained in Philadelphia himself, Anshutz centered a lineage that connected his one-time teacher, Thomas Eakins—who brought a penetrating realism to his portraits—with the next generation of urban realists and other modernists." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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