Emily B. Waite Pastel Drawing on Paper Portrait of A Man
Item Details
Pastel on paper
A pastel drawing on paper portrait of A man by well-known artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). Depicted is a man with a dark hair and brown eyes wearing a suit with a red tie. This piece is signed in black pastel along the bottom of the drawing near the lower right corner. This work is presented as an unframed pastel drawing on paper.
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
- minor wear to edges of paper.
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Item #
16BOS020-374
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