Emily B. Waite Oil Painting on Wood Panel Portrait of a Woman
Item Details
An oil painting on thin wood panel portrait of a woman by well-known artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). Depicted is a young brunette woman in turned profile. She wears a pink collared garment and sits in front of a green background. To the lower right corner, the piece is signed by the artist in blue paint. This work is presented as an unframed 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
- to fair; curving present to the thin wooden panel; dime sized loss of paint to lower right corner; yellow accretion along woman’s face and neck.
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Item #
16BOS020-352
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