Emily B. Waite Pastel Drawing on Board Townscape

Item Details

Pastel on paper

A pastel drawing on paper board of a townscape by well-listed artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). Depicted is a wealthy neighborhood with two elegant couples walking along the sidewalk lined with large houses. The night sky is rendered in a deep blue and is filled with small white stars. This piece is signed in red pastel near the lower right corner of the composition. A blind stamp is also present to the lower right corner. The work 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

- wear to edges and corners of paper board; tears in paper along left and right edges; restoration patches present to verso; smudge marks throughout margins of paper.

Dimensions

- measurement of paper board; drawn image measures approximately 13.25" W x 14" H.

Item #

16BOS020-379