Collections: American Art: The White Roses

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The White Roses

With its arrangement of naturalistically painted flowers in an Asian vase, this stunning watercolor recalls the still lifes of John La Farge, and demonstrates Western artists' enduring fascination with art of the Far East into the twentieth century. Like La Farge, who was one of the earliest and most influential proponents of Japonisme in America, Anna Fisher sets up engaging contrasts between natural and artificial, ephemeral and enduring, and local and exotic.

• Artist: Anna S. Fisher, American, 1873-1942
• Medium: Opaque watercolor, graphite, touches of pastel, and touches of transparent watercolor on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper mounted to wood pulp paperboard
• Dates: before 1922
• Dimensions: 24 15/16 x 19 in. (63.3 x 48.3 cm)
• Signature: Signed lower right: "Anna Fisher"
• Collections: American Art
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 22.90
• Credit Line: Gift of Frank L. Babbott
• Image: Overall, 22.90.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Anna S. Fisher (American, 1873-1942). The White Roses, before 1922. Opaque watercolor, graphite, touches of pastel, and touches of transparent watercolor on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper mounted to wood pulp paperboard, 24 15/16 x 19 in. (63.3 x 48.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, 22.90 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 22.90.jpg)