The White Roses
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
With its combination of naturalistically painted flowers and Asian objects, 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.
Caption
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 × 19 in. (63.3 × 48.3 cm) frame: 36 1/8 × 28 1/4 × 2 in. (91.8 × 71.8 × 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Frank L. Babbott, 22.90. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
The White Roses
Date
before 1922
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
Classification
Dimensions
24 15/16 × 19 in. (63.3 × 48.3 cm) frame: 36 1/8 × 28 1/4 × 2 in. (91.8 × 71.8 × 5.1 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "Anna Fisher"
Credit Line
Gift of Frank L. Babbott
Accession Number
22.90
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