Emily B. Waite Pastel Drawing on Paper Portrait of a Girl
Item Details
A pastel drawing on paper portrait of a girl by well-known artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980), dated 1920. It depicts a young girl with light brown hair with a dutch boy cut. She is smiling and wears a white high collared garment. The painting is signed and dated to the lower right corner in graphite. It is mounted under glass in a gilt wood frame that is marked with a Boston framer’s stamp.
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 for two years through France, Spain, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, and Italy, studying and copying master paintings. Waite’s work is represented in the collections of numerous 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. For more information about the artist, see the link below.
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 frame.
Dimensions
- measured in the frame.
Item #
16BOS020-303
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