"Emma Loveland Laumeister and Ernest Haskell..." marriage announcement

 

Ernest Haskell

  1876 - 1925 (biography)

1920  

etching 

3 7/16 x 4 11/16" platemark 

pencil, lower center margin 

about 50 

pencil dedicate in lower margin: "To Florence from Emma & Ernest" 

Pousett-Dart, Page 25 (under "Announcements of Family Events); Library of Congress 100; Moore/Boudin, page 15. 

antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

PMJ288 

$250.00 

An etching of the hills and trees in the Corral de Tierra, near Monterey, California doubles as a commemorative gift for the wedding guests of the artist and his new bride in “On June Fifth 1920…”. Haskell married his second wife, Emma Loveland Laumeister, in 1920, two years after the death of his first wife. With Emma he had four children and they settled in Phippsburg, Maine.

Throughout his life the local environs were a continual source of inspiration for Haskell, who, even on the monotone plate, was able to capture the rolling lushness of the Northern California countryside using his flicking technique.

This print, done in an edition of around 50 is included in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.