Emily B. Waite Double-Sided Drawing on Paper

Item Details

Pastel on paper

A double-sided drawing on paper board by well-listed artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). On the front is a pastel drawing resembling the appearance of stained glass compositions, featuring a scene from the Gospel of John in which Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene after his burial. The sun in the background mimics a halo around Jesus’ head. This piece is signed in black pastel to the left corner. To the reverse is horizontal graphite drawing of two soldiers holding rifles, flanking a female allegorical figure. Illegible inscriptions are present to the top and bottom of this drawing. This 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

- minor wear to edges of paper board; faint stain along left edge of paper board.

Dimensions

- measures paper board; pastel drawing measures approximately 13.25" W x 16.25" H.

Item #

16BOS020-378