Sand Burr
ca. 1894
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Ann and Tom Barwick Family Collection
Accession Number
2007.46
Tags
Art Historical Context
Thomas Anshutz's *Sand Burr* (ca. 1894) captures a vivid moment on the American coast, featuring a nude figure amid a beach scene with a boat, swimming elements, and a subtle nod to the prickly peril of sand burrs— spiny seaside plants that could easily cause a wound. As an oil painting from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection gifted by the Ann and Tom Barwick Family, it exemplifies late 19th-century American. Anshutz, a of Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, brought a bold, naturalistic approach to the human form, often depicting everyday leisure with unid...