Emily B. Waite Pastel Drawing on Sand Pastel Paper
Item Details
Pastel on paper
A pastel drawing on sand pastel paper by well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980), dated 1919. The work depicts a young girl in turned profile. She has brunette curls and wears a pink garment with a wide lay-flat collar. To the lower right corner, the piece is signed and dated by the artist in pencil. The piece is presented without a frame or matting. To the paper verso is a partial stamp for the 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 scuffing present to the paper.
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Item #
16BOS020-369
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