Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

Shown also is an admirable picture Of
the sea, Breaking Wave" rendered
very much as a Japanese artist of
the best school would have rendered
1t. In these works one sees meet
ing of the East and the West with
the spirit of art, which is universal,
uniting the two.
Alice Huger Smith Is one of our
American artists who has found essen
TALLY native and individual expression,
not by deliberately seeking originality,
but by giving free expression to her
own personality.
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CHILDE HASSAM says of Ernest
~ Haskell: II think Of his etchings
as among the best that have heen
made-absolutely and wholly personal
so meticulously and highly finished
that it may be said that they are really
In the spirit of the old masters.
His subjects, celebrating his
own country from the farms on the
granite of his native New England
and under the long shadows Of Mount
Shasta, to the Expresses of the Bay
of Monterey, are interesting to both
Americans and Europeans.
Haskell was a big honest and lovable
human being, with fine enthusiasns.
He knew and admired the beautiful
things in art and life. He hated
sham. The inner worth OK his indi-
viduality speaks through his work"
Ernest Haskell was born in West
Woodstock, Conn.,, June 80, 1876. His
artistic career began when he was
10 and the editor of the Mail and
Express in New York recognizing
talent in some of his idle sketches and
publishing them. Two years later he
went to. Paris and worked by him
self for several years with the books
Of Leonardo da Vinci and the Rovin-
ski Rembrandt catalogue for instruc-
tors. 1t was at this time that he did
his first etchings. In 1915 he did a
series of etchings in California. In
1924 came his delightful Maine
series. In 1925 he painted water
colors in California and in Maine.
Then came his sudden and tragic
death as the result of an automobile
accident.
Full appreciation of Haskell's work
has come recently. but 1t is only since
his death that comprehensive show
ings Of it have been made. 1t is now
being much sought by astute collec-
tors and it is very worth possessing,
for Ernest Haskell was not only a
splendid etcher. brilliant technician,
but an artist of keen sensibility, and
whatever he etched was worth the
effort. whatever he did nossessed dis
tinction.
1t is difficult to explain what 1t is
that makes for greatness in an etch-
ing. To those who are familiar with
the best, such brilliancy of success as
Haskells work displays manifests it.
ia 81 - &C., 10 ,l~a =
he says. but the way he says this
duction of detail, the sensitiveness and
at the same time firmness of his
touch. his mastery of, medium. Few
etchers have produced pure landscape
etchings as fine as these Of Ernest
Haskell which include
vast stretches of country and yet pos.
seSS an intimacy Of interest which Is
His water colors done
in transparent wash with a sparkle
of the paper beneath indicate again
his recognition of the limitations as
we'll as the possibilities of the medium
in which he was working. They are
true to nature, but they are dis
tinctly individualistic. BY bringing
these works of Ernest Haskell's to
Washington DR.. Dunthorne puts
lutCIS VI all uCAC OIluCA a tSoA
obligation.
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DROF. WILL HUTCHINS of the
American University was a lifelong
friend of Ernest Haskell, and, as a
suitable tribute, will give an informal
talk on Mr.. Haskell and his work at
the Dunthorne Gallery at o'clock on
afternoon, January IL, to
which those especially interested are
invited.
A COLLECTION of photographs Of
classic villas and their gardens of
the Italian Renaissance. by Francis
Johnston, Is to be placed on
view at George Washington Univer-
sity, Corcoran Hall, Twenty-first street
between G and II, tomorrow, January
10. in connection with an illustrated
lecture on THE Gardens of History"
to be given by Miss Johnston, at $3.50
o'clock.
Miss Johnston, 1t will be remem-
bered, was one of the first in this
country to experiment with the vari-
Gus methods of photography in nat
ural colors. Her first experiments
were made when she still had a studio
here in Washington, on v street. but