Emily B. Waite Pastel Drawing on Paper Portrait of Woman with Pearls
Item Details
Pastel on paper
A pastel drawing portrait on paper by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980), dated to 1930. This drawing depicts a woman with pulled up blonde hair and hazel eyes gazing directly to the viewer, while wearing a satin off-white dress, black and pearl decorative clasps pins, and a pearl necklace. Rendered with subtle applications of pastel within a bright purple background. The work is signed in graphite by the artist to the lower right corner of the composition. It is presented behind acrylic 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.
Deaccessioned from the Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, MA. Proceeds from the sale of this item will go to benefit the museum.
Condition
- minor abrasion to frame.
Dimensions
- measures the frame; visible image measures 14" W x 21" H.
Item #
16BOS020-288
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