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ClassificationsPaintings-oils

Artist Alberta Binford McCloskey (American, 1855 - 1911)

Date1891

Made AtUnited States, North America

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsFramed: 13 3/4 × 17 7/8 × 2 in. (34.9 × 45.4 × 5.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Eleanor Russell

Object number74.22.16

DescriptionIn 1890, around the time that Alberta McCloskey painted this still life, Pasadena's annual Rose Parade began as a promotion trumpeting the region's year-round growing season. In the late-nineteenth century, regional nurseries developed and grew hybrid roses with spectacular, large-sized blooms, which they used to lavishly decorate Rose Parade floats. In this painting McCloskey has arranged the roses using the same shallow, horizontal arrangement with a dark velvet backdrop as featured in her fruit paintings. The roses are seen in close-up, lying close to the viewer on the picture plane, and are well past their prime.

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