Emily Burling Waite Pastel Drawing on Paper of Morning Glories

Item Details

Oil Pastels

A pastel on paper of morning glories by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980). Depicted are pink, white, and purple petunias wildly growing in a blue window box. The glass window panes can barely be seen through the large blooms of the flowers. This piece is unsigned and comes presented behind acrylic glass in a black wooden frame with gold tone interior trim.

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 wear to edges of frame,

Dimensions

- measures the frame.

Item #

16BOS020-337