Emily B. Waite Pastel Portrait of Older Woman
Item Details
Pastel on paper
A pastel portrait of an older woman by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980). This frontal portrait features an older woman wearing a pink jacket and a pearl necklace, staring out at the viewer with a serious expression. Sketchy delineations remain visible throughout the work. The drawing is signed and dated in pencil to the lower right. Presented under glass with a white mat and a gold-tone wood frame with a floral relief design.
Emily B. Waite is best known for her oil portraits, still life paintings, and etchings. She studied at the Art Students League in New York and 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 and discoloration to frame.
Dimensions
- measurement of frame; visible image measures approximately 14"W x 20.25"H.
Item #
16BOS020-293
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