Pair of Emily B. Waite Portrait Etchings
Item Details
Two portrait etchings by well-listed Massachusetts artist Emily Burling Waite (American, 1887 – 1980). Depicted are single portraits of men. One etching shows a young pensive man, titled Mr. Charles Mason – Vice Chairman Metropolitan Chapter, American Red Cross, and the other a confident man gazing forward. The pieces are signed by the artist in-plate and by hand in graphite. The works are dated around the mid-twentieth century. The works are not framed.
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 edge wear; toning to paper.
Dimensions
- measures the larger.
Item #
17BOS128-426