Emily B. Waite Oil on Canvas Portrait of Man
Item Details
An oil portrait on canvas of an older man by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980). This work features a frontal bust portrait of an older mustached gentleman wearing a tie and black suit. The sitter stares directly out to the viewer with a serious expression and is placed in front of a dark background. The stretched canvas is unframed and signed in red to the lower right.
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 completed this particular work as a student 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. In 1959 she returned to Europe, primarily to study fresco painting in Northern Italy. 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.; the Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., among many others.
Condition
- some paint loss especially along canvas edges; stains and marks on canvas; relined.
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Item #
16BOS020-284
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