Emily B. Waite Oil Painting on Unstretched Canvas Portrait of a Red-haired Woman
Item Details
An oil painting on unstretched canvas portrait of a red-haired woman by well-known artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). Depicted is a young woman with red hair and large blue eyes wearing a blue shawl draped over her shoulders. Through the window in the background, a winter landscape is painted with snow and a barren tree. This piece is unsigned and is presented unframed and unstretched.
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
- minor wear to edges of canvas; some creasing to canvas.
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Item #
16BOS020-348
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