Emily B. Waite Oil Portrait on Canvas of Elderly Woman
Item Details
An oil painting on canvas portrait by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980). With a background of brown tonalities, this painting depicts a three-quarter portrait of a seated elderly woman with glasses; the sitter is well-dressed in a ruffled white blouse, a black jacket, and a black hat. The unframed stretched canvas is signed in red paint to the lower right corner of the composition.
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
- scuffs to the canvas perimeter; stains present throughout painting, especially visible along left side and lower left area; paint loss present along edges; craquelure present throughout painting.
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Item #
16BOS020-274
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