Emily B. Waite Pastel Drawing on Paper Landscape

Item Details

Pastel on paper

A pastel drawing on paper featuring a landscape by well-known artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). Depicted is a park in Washington D.C. with cherry blossom trees along a body of water with a gondola. In the distance, the Washington Monument is rendered in white pastel with a gray blimp flying in the blue sky above. This piece is unsigned; it is not matted and remains unframed.

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 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.

Condition

- minor wear to edges of paper; tear in paper along left side.

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Item #

16BOS020-380