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Accession #	22.90
Artist	Anna S. Fisher
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
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)
Signed	Signed lower right: "Anna Fisher"
Credit Line	Gift of Frank L. Babbott
Location	American Identities: Inventing American Landscape

Curatorial Remarks:

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.