Emily B. Waite Oil Painting Portrait of Man with Bow Tie
Item Details
An oil painting on unstretched canvas portrait by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980). Within brown purple tonalities in the background, this painting depicts the affable three-quarter portrait of a standing gray-haired man, well dressed in a navy blue suit, gray vest and a white shirt with a burgundy bow tie. The work is signed in red paint to the lower right corner of the composition. This work 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
- scuffs to the canvas perimeter; minor stains and discoloration to painting.
Dimensions
- image size measures 25" W x 30" H.
Item #
16BOS020-399
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