Emily B. Waite Oil Painting on Canvas Portrait of a Young Man
Item Details
An oil painting on canvas portrait of a young man by well-known artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). Depicted is a young man smiling widely and wearing a navy suit with a red and blue striped tie. He is situated in front of a vibrantly painted patterned wallpaper. The piece is unsigned but comes directly from the estate of Worcester Historical Museum with artist attribution. Presented as an unframed canvas.
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 wear to canvas; paint loss along jacket and in upper right of composition.
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Item #
16BOS020-386
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