Emily B. Waite Oil Painting on Unstretched Canvas Still Life with Apples
Item Details
An oil painting on unstretched canvas still life with apples by well-known artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). Depicted are five red apples with a covered casserole dish, set in an interior scene. The work is not signed by the artist but comes from The Worcester Historical Museum’s collection of the artist’s work. Stamped to the verso ‘62 / S.P.’. This piece is presented as an unframed unstretched canvas.
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
- fraying present to canvas along edges; some paint loss present in the upper left corner and upper right.
Dimensions
- measures canvas; painted image measures 21.5" W x 13" H.
Item #
16BOS020-257
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