Emily Burling Waite Pastel Drawing on Paper Portrait of Woman

Item Details

Pastel on paper

A pastel portrait on paper of a woman by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980), created in 1925. This bust portrait features a three-quarter turned view of a young woman with her hair pulled back in a low bun. She stares off to the left and is set in front of an unfinished blue background. The work is signed in pencil to the lower right. Presented under glass with a white mat and a gold-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.

Condition

- minor scratches in frame; some dirt and smudges on glass; minor rips to paper backing.

Dimensions

- measurement of frame; visible image measures approximately 14.25"W x 20.5"H.

Item #

16BOS020-292