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Emily B. Waite Oil Painting on Unstretched Canvas Still Life with Onions

Item Details

Emily Burling Waite (1887 – 1980), active/lived in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, District Of Columbia / Europe
Untitled (still life with onions), early 20th century
Oil painting on canvas
Unsigned

An oil painting on unstretched canvas still life with onions by well-known artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). Depicted is a grouping of yellow and white onions tumbling out of a metal bucket, set within a dark interior. The piece is not signed by the artist. This work is presented as an unframed unstretched canvas.

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.

Condition

- scattered scuffs and abrasions to surface of painting with areas of paint loss; possible overpainting, as seen under UV light, to onion to lower left quadrant, fourth from the left side of the composition; surface irregularities and inclusions; varnish inconsistencies; nail holes and some additional tears along perimeter of canvas; accretions; handling wear to canvas.

Dimensions

21.75" W x 19.0" H x 0.1" D

Item #

ITMGM87730

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