Ernest Haskell

American (1876-1925)

An illustrator and etcher, as well as painter, Ernest Haskell was born in Woodstock, Connecticut in 1876. He was a student at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1897 and exhibited his works in Paris in 1898. While in Paris he became a friend and protege of James McNeill Whistler. Haskell returned to New York in the late 1890s and, in 1906, he bought land and a farmhouse in Phippsburg, Maine, and spent his summers there with his family, primarily painting landscapes.

Haskell exhibited at Alfred Steiglitz’s 291 Gallery in New York City, as well as at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the Art Institute in Chicago, among others. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, and Bowdoin College Museum of Art.