Emily B. Waite Oil on Canvas Portrait Study
Item Details
A preliminary study oil portrait of a girl on an unstretched canvas by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980). This oil study portrayed in diluted red pigment features a bust portrait of a young girl holding flowers in her left hand. No signature is visible on the primed canvas, and the work remains 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
- some stains, paint loss, creases, and stretch marks on canvas; canvas has frayed edges; canvas is unstretched.
Dimensions
- measurement of unstretched canvas; painted image measuers approximately 18"W x 22"H.
Item #
16BOS020-387
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