Label Text:
For a print exhibition at the Anderson Galleries in New York, Haskell composed short, descriptive captions for more than thirty of his recent etchings. The captions provided viewers with a rare indication of the artist’s intentions. The labels are revealing for their emphasis on formal, rather than subjective, concerns. All locate Haskell’s work within a body of American modernist etchings that celebrated the fundamental characteristics of the medium despite their diverse subjects and stylistic variety.
The Snow Farm is an equally thoughtful study of the interaction of land and sky: trees march friezelike across the flat landscape, while freely drawn clouds suggest movement. Three minuscule birds sway in gusting winds above stationary farmhouses. Haskell pointed to this interaction in his caption: “Cloud movement, in contrast to topographical lines, pure etching.”
KG, How He Was to His Talents exhibition, March 24, 2011-August 7, 2011
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