Emily B. Waite Etchings of Groups of Children
Item Details
Three etchings on paper by noted artist Emily B. Waite (1887-1980). These works depict a group of children in winter clothing playing with cats (1917), a group of more formally dressed children (1917), and four children gathered on the lap and around an older female figure, titled Grammy. The older works use drypoint technique. The pieces are signed in graphite to lower right. They are presented unframed and unmatted.
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
- toning and wear to edges of prints; pinholes to edges of largest print.
Dimensions
- measures largest print; smallest print measures 7.5" W x 10.25" H.
Item #
17BOS128-411
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