Original Oil Portrait of Gray Haired Woman by Emily B Waite

Item Details

An original oil portrait on stretched canvas of a gray haired woman wearing glasses by Emily Burling Waite (1887-1980). The subject of the painting gazes intently at the viewer from behind her glasses, her lips and cheeks are rouged and she wears a black dress with a lace collar. Her left hand is lifted with nearly a pointed finger. The artist’s name is printed in red at the bottom edge and the painting is unframed.

Emily B. Waite 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.

Condition

Good to fair, the is a small area of paint loss, about 1/4" in diameter.

Dimensions

Item #

17DCC056-220