Collection of Emily B. Waite Etchings of Female Portraits

Item Details

A Collection of Etchings of Female Portraits by Emily B. Waite (1887-1980). This collection of six etchings depicts portraits of late 19th Century and early 20th Century European women of higher status. Three pieces are signed by the artist in plate to the lower center and lower left. Three pieces are signed by the artist in plate and by hand in graphite to the lower right. This collection is presented in a plastic sleeve.

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

- foxing and toning throughout print papers due to age; tack holes along edges of two large print papers.

Dimensions

- measures largest print paper; visible image measures 5.0" W x 7.0" H; smallest print paper measures 5.75" W x 8.0" H x 0.1" D; visible image measures 3.25" W x 5.0" H.

Item #

17BOS128-422