Emily B. Waite Conté Crayon Drawing on Paper of a Rabbit
Item Details
Conte Crayon
A Conté crayon drawing on paper of a rabbit by well-listed Massachusetts artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). The work depicts a large rabbit in black and white with brown around the eyes and inside the ear. The piece is not visibly signed and comes from a collection of the artist’s work from The Worcester Historical Museum. Under a single layer of white mat, the item is presented under glass and housed in a black and silver-tone wood 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
- mild amount of wrinkling to the paper along top and bottom.
Dimensions
- measures the frame.
Item #
16BOS020-278
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