Emily B. Waite Pastel Drawing on Paper Portrait of a Baby
Item Details
Pastel on paper
A pastel on paper portrait of a baby by well-listed artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980) created in 1964. Depicted is a baby with large blue eyes and wisps of brunette hair wearing a gown with a floral pattern. This piece is signed and dated in the lower left corner in graphite. Presented under acrylic glass, housed in a distressed wooden 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.
Deaccessioned from the Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, MA. Proceeds from the sale of this item will go to benefit the museum.
Condition
- minor wear to edges of frame.
Dimensions
- measured in the frame.
Item #
16BOS020-333
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