Collection of Emily B. Waite Etchings of Architectural Figures

Item Details

A Collection of Etchings of Architectural Figures by Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). This collection of five etchings on paper depicts buildings and churches surrounded by trees and headstones. Titles of some pieces include Beneath the Spire, Unity Church, Church Street and the Spire, Oakholm. The pieces are signed by the artist in plate to the lower left and lower right. The pieces are signed by the artist in graphite beneath the plate mark to the lower right.. They are 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

- toning throughout each print; adhesive on each corner of smallest print; smudges on left side of one print; Oakholm has a printing flaw at the bottom portion of the visible image.

Dimensions

- measures largest print paper; visible image measures 8.0" W x 10.0" H; smallest print paper measures 9.0" W x 9.0" H x 0.1" D; visible image measures 5.0" W x 7.0" H.

Item #

17BOS128-418