Emily B. Waite Double Sided Colored Charcoal Drawing Anatomical Study
Item Details
Charcoal on paper
A double sided pastel and charcoal drawing on paper of an anatomical study by well-known artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). The frontal piece depicts a colored drawing of the muscular structure of two figures rendered from a full body profile perspective. The posterior piece depicts a charcoal and white pastel drawing of a facial study of four male figures rendered from a frontal and profile perspective. The drawing was executed while a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1908 – 1910). The drawings are presented unsigned and unframed.
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 tear to paper edges; minor discoloration and stains to paper; minuscule perforation to paper corners.
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Item #
16BOS020-393
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