Yellow Rose
Unknown American, American
19th century
Reverse painting on glass; tinsel painting
Overall: 9 × 11 1/8 in. (22.9 × 28.2 cm)
Frame: 10 3/4 × 13 in. (27.3 × 33 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
P.935.1.67
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
On view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Label
Inspired by botanical prints appearing in books and magazines, Yellow Rose was created by a young woman who painted on glass, adding metallic foil behind the rose to increase its shimmering highlights. Can you find the silvery foil near the edges of the yellow petals? Called tinsel paintings, these artworks were part of young women’s education in the mid-1800s.
From the 2024 exhibition Beyond the Bouquet: Arranging Flowers in American Art, curated by Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art
Exhibition History
American Flowers, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire, January 29-February 15, 1982.
Beyond the Bouquet: Arranging Flowers in American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 18, 2024 - late 2025.
Provenance
Found in Maine; Downtown Gallery, New York; sold to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), New York, September 30, 1931; given to present collection, 1935.
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