Emily B. Waite Conte Crayon Drawing Portrait of Elderly Man with a Dog
Item Details
Conte Crayon
A Conte crayon drawing study portrait on paper of an elderly man with a dog by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980), dated 1944. This drawing depicts an elderly man with a white beard gazing directly at a dog while he pets him affectionately. Rendered with subtle applications of canton crayon and white pastel highlights on a gray surface. The work is signed and dated by the artist to the lower left corner of the composition. It is presented behind glass, under a white mat board and housed in a golden tone frame.
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
- minor abrasions to frame.
Dimensions
- measures in frame; visible image measures: 12" W x 18" H.
Item #
16BOS020-300
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