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Corporation (later to become MGM films) as a poster artist. Ernest and
Elizabeth had two children, Hildegarde and Eben. During this period Haskell was doing much work in the line of creating etchings, in Maine as well as in California and Florida. When exhibited, these met with critical acclaim, so
135:, for the purpose of conducting independent art studies. Haskell was encouraged and assisted in this endeavor by his older sister Mabel Percy Haskell, herself an artist and writer and newspaper correspondent. On the first trip he enrolled in a prestigious art school, the
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Haskell served in World War I in the Camouflage Unit. He was one of the artists who developed camouflage painting for the United States Army to disguise battleships and to use on soldiers' uniforms. His wife Elizabeth contracted influenza in the
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Haskell brought with him techniques he had learned in the field of advertising and theatrical posters. His work in this area became very popular. He made posters promoting magazines such as
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during the winter months. Haskell worked on etching and painting in the summers, and on trips to
California, while maintaining portrait commissions and commercial work in the winters. In 1915 he was engaged by the newly formed
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on Fifth Avenue in New York City, curated by Sylvan Cole Jr. 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.
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As of 2017, the property on the coast of Maine, in
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on a football scholarship he had secured. However, his artwork attracted attention which led to an offer of employment in the field of magazine illustration. Soon he was working in
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Pursuit of the Butterfly, Portraits of James McNeill Whistler by Eric Denker. Published by the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. copyright 1995 Smithsonian Institution
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to his family in Maine after organizing an exhibition of the new paintings in New York when he was involved in a fatal automobile accident near West Point in Phippsburg, Maine.
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In 1903 he married Elizabeth Louise Foley, a writer and member of New York society, and in 1906 they bought some land and a farmhouse on the coast of Maine in the town of
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