Emily B. Waite Charcoal Drawing of a Deer

Item Details

Charcoal on paper

A charcoal drawing on tan paper of a deer by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980). This piece features the profile of a deer rendered with subtle charcoal applications within a tan surface in the background. The work is unsigned by the artist and presented behind glass, under a white mat board and housed in a black composite 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.

Dimensions

- measures in frame; visible image measures 12" W x 15.75" H.

Item #

16BOS020-263