Emily B. Waite Oil Painting on Unstretched Canvas Portrait of a Woman
Item Details
An oil painting on board portrait of a woman by well-listed artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). Within brown tonalities in the background. The piece depicts the profile portrait of a gray-haired woman, dispiritedly gazing to her left and dressed in a blue garment with patterned fair accents, and a translucent scarf on her shoulders. The painting is signed in black to the lower right corner of the composition. This work is unframed.
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 craquelure, minor scuffs along painting perimeter; puncture near to the center of the composition.
Dimensions
- image measures approximately 30" W x 25" H.
Item #
16BOS020-400
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