Francis Malbone's Brick House

1935

Emily Burling Waite had her first show at the Art Association of Newport in 1917, showing both portraits and etchings. A talented, astute and prolific artist, originally from Worcester, MA, she was educated at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, under Edmund Tarbell and Philip Hale, and spent a period at the Art Students League of NY before receiving a traveling scholarship to Europe. Her areas of specialty were ones by which she could make a living--predominantly portraits and etchings. She exhibited in the annual exhibitions of the AAN thru the 1950s and in the 1960s was still corresponding with secretary Ilonk Rogers about selling her etchings. In the 1920s Waite resided in Newport when she was married to Arthur Williams Manchester, co-founder of the Williams and Manchester Shipyard.

Newport

Etching

plate: 6 in x 4 in; mat: 11 in x 14 in; paper: 11 in x 7 13/16 in

Gift of Emily Burling Waite Manchester

1967.001.003