ARTIST: Emily Burling Waite Manchester (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, District of Columbia, 1887 - 1980)
TITLE: Portrait of Woman - Melba (titled on label)
YEAR: circa 1972
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Minor paint losses along edges. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 36 x 26 inches / 91 x 66 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower right
NOTE: has exhibition label on verso
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Emily Burling Waite (1887-1980) was an American printmaker and painter. Waite held the Paige Travelling Scholarship of the Museum School from 1910-1912, and she had a solo exhibit in 1913 at the Renaissance Court. In 1917 in Newport, Rhode Island, Waite had a solo exhibit of portraits and etchings, which was reviewed as "the drawing of the former is excellent," and in 1921 she had a studio in Newport.Waite married Arthur Williams Manchester, a shipwright and president of the Williams and Manchester Shipyard, on September 10, 1924 in Worcester. They had two children, Lemuel A. W. Manchester and Laura Manchester Smith.Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Smithsonian American Art Museum; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.