El Toro
Ernest Haskell
1876 to 1900
Medium
etching and engraving
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.806
About the Artist
Ernest Haskell · 1876–1925
Ernest Haskell (1876–1925) was born on June 30 in Woodstock, Connecticut, on the family farm, where he spent his childhood sketching amid rural surroundings. After attending Woodstock Academy and recovering from typhoid fever through drawing, he was encouraged by his artist sister, Mabel Percy Haskell. Largely self-taught at first, Haskell made three extended trips to Paris starting in 1897, brief...