biography of Ernest HASKELL (1876-1925)

Birth place: Woodstock, CT

Death place: Phippsburg, ME

Addresses: New Milford, CT

Profession: Illustrator, painter, etcher, writer

Studied: Acad. Julian, Paris, 1897; Paris, 1900-02.

Exhibited: SNBA, 1898; Pan.-Pac. Expo., San Fran., 1915 (bronze med.)

Member: Chicago SE.

Comments: Haskell worked at the New York American before studying in Paris. He returned to do caricatures and theatrical posters but returned to Paris to study old masters. In Maine he painted landscapes. He also visited California and produced a series prints. Haskell was killed in an auto accident.

Sources: WW25; P&H Samuels, 212; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 352.