Emily B. Wait Oil on Canvas Portrait of Woman
Item Details
An oil portrait of a woman on an unstretched canvas by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980). This nearly full-body portrait features a three-quarter view of a young brunette woman dressed in a blue gown with black embellishments. The woman holds some flowers up to her chest in her left hand and a handbag in her right hand hanging by her side. She stares out at the viewer with a serious expression. The work is signed with the artist’s monogram in black to the lower right. This work comes unframed and unstretched.
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. This work was deaccessioned from the Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, MA. Proceeds from the sale of this item will go to benefit the museum.
Condition
- to fair; scratches, paint loss, stains, creases, and rips in canvas.
Dimensions
- measurement of unstretched canvas; painted image measures approximately 26"W x 36"H.
Item #
16BOS020-268
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