Emily B. Waite Oil Painting on Unstretched Canvas Still LIfe
Item Details
An oil painting on unstretched canvas still life by well-listed artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). The piece depicts a yellow rose with leafs contained in a metal vase, situated against a deep green patterned backdrop with pine trees patterned accents. This piece is signed by the artist in orange to the lower left corner of the composition. This work is presented unstretched and unframed. The piece comes directly from the estate of Worcester Historical Museum and proceeds go to 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
- minor scuffs along painting perimeter.
Dimensions
- visible image measures: 10" W x 14" H.
Item #
16BOS020-256
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