Emily Burling Waite Etching on Paper Self-portrait
Item Details
An etching on paper self-portrait by well-known artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). Depicted is the artist Emily Waite wearing a light colored barrette and beaded necklace. She holds a pencil in her left hand and placed her right hand on the paper to steady it. She looks towards the viewer most likely due to her using a mirror to create her self-portrait. This piece is signed in plate to the lower left corner and by hand in graphite to the lower right corner. Presented behind glass in a white tone frame and houses in a wooden frame. To the verso, hanging hardware is installed and this piece comes ready to hang. This piece comes directly from the estate of Worcester Historical Museum and all proceeds benefit the Museum.
Emily B. Waite is best known for her oil portraits, still life paintings, and etchings. She studied at the Art Students League in New York and completed this particular work as a student 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.
Condition
- some minor surface wear to the frame; broken hanging wire on verso.
Dimensions
- measured in the frame; plate size: 8" W x 10" H
Item #
16BOS020-264
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