Ernest Haskell was an American artist and illustrator, internationally famous in his lifetime and remembered for his etchings, as well as engravings, pen-and-ink drawings, lithographs and watercolors.
21 Facts About Ernest Haskell
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Ernest Haskell was a pioneer in the field of theatrical posters.
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Ernest Haskell created many portraits and caricatures of luminaries of the day.
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Ernest Haskell was born on June 30,1876, in Woodstock, Connecticut.
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Ernest Haskell's mother was Caledonia deRennes Haskell and his father was Besture Haskell.
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Ernest Haskell was a teenager and had expected to attend Yale University on a football scholarship he had secured.
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Ernest Haskell was encouraged and assisted in this endeavor by his older sister Mabel Percy Ernest Haskell, herself an artist and writer and newspaper correspondent.
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Ernest Haskell made posters promoting magazines such as Scribner's, Collier's, Truth, and Pearson's.
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Ernest Haskell was a member of the Players club on Gramercy Park in Manhattan during this period.
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Ernest Haskell himself was the subject of a portrait by Zaida Ben-Yusuf, who was known for her artistically rendered photographic portraits of eminent artists and political figures of her time.
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Ernest Haskell worked on etching and painting in the summers, and on trips to California, while maintaining portrait commissions and commercial work in the winters.
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When exhibited, these met with critical acclaim, so Ernest Haskell became known as a "fine" artist as well as a portraitist and poster lithographer.
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Ernest Haskell belonged to the group of artists who were exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz' famed 291 Gallery in New York City.
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Ernest Haskell had one man shows at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, the Berlin Photographic Company and the Art Institute of Chicago among other venues.
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Ernest Haskell exhibited with the Brooklyn Society of Etchers from 1916 to 1922.
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Ernest Haskell served in World War I in the Camouflage Unit.
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Ernest Haskell was one of the artists who developed camouflage painting for the United States Army to disguise battleships and to use on soldiers' uniforms.
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Ernest Haskell took the children and went to live in northern California.
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At that time, Ernest Haskell had been working in watercolors which were admired for their modern style.
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Ernest Haskell was eulogized by fellow artists and friends John Marin and Childe Hassam among others.
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Ernest Haskell's work was included in an exhibition entitled "Three Centuries of American Art" at MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, in 1938.