Emily B. Waite Oil Painting on Burlap Canvas Still Life
Item Details
An oil painting on burlap canvas of a still life by well-listed artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). The composition in dark tones includes a blue jar encased in a woven rope net and a mustard colored cup. A peacock feather is faintly visible in the upper right corner of the composition. The piece is unsigned and unframed.
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; wear along the edges; craquelure over the entire surface with small spots of paint loss in numerous areas; stretcher corners are out of alignment.
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Item #
16BOS020-309
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