Emily B. Waite Chalk Pastel Portrait on Paper of Woman
Item Details
Pastel on paper
A chalk pastel portrait on paper of a woman, created in 1919 by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980). This work features a profile view of a young woman wearing a pink shirt and her hair pulled back in a low bun. The work is signed and dated in pencil to the lower left. Work is presented unframed and unstretched canvas.
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
- some stains, foxing, and creases in paper; portrait is unframed.
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Item #
16BOS020-254
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