Emily B. Waite Oil Painting on Canvas Portrait of Nude Woman
Item Details
An oil on canvas half-length portrait of a nude by Emily Waite (American, 1887-1980). This work depicts a woman posing in a studio backdrop. The piece is signed on the canvas verso.
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. In 1959 she returned to Europe, primarily to study fresco painting in Northern Italy. 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.; the Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., among many others. For more information about the artist, see the links below. For additional works by Waite, please refer to the link below for EBTH’s landmark sale from the Worcester Historical Museum, #16BOS080.
Condition
- restored condition; with minor inpainting to perimeter.
Dimensions
- measurement of unstretched canvas; painted image measures approximately 22"W x 30"H.
Item #
16BOS020-267
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