Collection of Emily Burling Waite Etchings of Farm Scenes

Item Details

A collection of three etchings by well-listed Massachusetts artist Emily Burling Waite (American, 1887 – 1980). Depicted are compositions of various agricultural scenes. One entitled Trading Grain depicts a horse-powered wagon filled with grain. The second, titled Ronda, Spain is a farmer leading a line mules bearing bags of product through an ancient tunnel. The third depicts a woman clad in traditional clothes outside a farmhouse. The pieces are signed by the artist in-plate and by hand in graphite to the lower margins. The works are dated around the early to mid-twentieth century. The portraits 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

- slight edge wear; toning to paper.

Dimensions

- measures the largest.

Item #

17BOS128-407