Emily Burling Waite Oil Painting on Canvas Portrait of Girl
Item Details
An oil portrait on canvas of a girl by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980). This work features an adolescent blonde girl in a patterned summer dress. She sits in a brightly colored lawn chair and holds a book in her hand as she gazes downward with a contemplative expression.The background is filled with lush greenery, and the overall composition is portrayed with thick painterly brushstrokes and vibrant colors. The stretched canvas remains unframed and is signed in blue to the lower right.
Emily B. Waite is best known for her oil portraits, still life paintings, and etchings. She began her formal artistic training at 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
- some paint loss and scratches on canvas; canvas has loosened from staples on verso; minor fraying to canvas verso in corners.
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Item #
16BOS020-280
