Label Text:
When he was sixteen years old, Ernest Haskell studied geometry at Woodstock Academy in Connecticut. He made drawings on almost half of the 242 pages of his geometry textbook; some are integrated into the mathematical diagrams, while others exist as distinct compositions in the margins. These drawings are similar to the “idle scratchings” that led to a career in newspaper illustration in New York.

Animated athletes, popular song references, violent historical scenes―and the occasional mathematical notation―decorate the pages of this book.

KG, How He Was to His Talents exhibition, March 24, 2011-August 7, 2011

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