Emily B. Waite Etching on Paper Farm Scene
Item Details
An etching on paper of a farm scene by well-listed artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). Depicted is a horse pulling a cart filled with hay and a man sitting atop; the horse eats what remains in the harvested field. This piece is not signed, titled, or dated. Presented under glass in a cream tone mat and housed in a brown wood frame.
Emily B. Waite is best known for her oil portraits, still life paintings, and etchings. She studied at the Art Students League in New York and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she studied from 1908 through 1910 under Philip Leslie Hale and Francis Luis Mora. In 1910 she received the Paige Traveling Scholarship and traveled extensively for two years throughout France, Spain, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, and Italy, studying and copying master paintings. Waite’s work is represented in the collections of numerous distinguished institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D. C.; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., among many others.
Condition
- minor wear to frame; foxing; tear in paper backing to upper left corner; minor smudges on glass.
Dimensions
- measured in the frame; plate size: 7" W x 5" H.
Item #
16BOS020-349
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