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Maker(s):Haskell, Ernest
Culture:American (1876-1925)
Title:Portrait of a man
Date Made:ca. 1897-1898
Type:Drawing
Materials:graphite and (Winsor & Newton) liquid graphite medium on heavy off-white wove paper laid down on board cut to sheet
Measurements:Sheet: 5 3/4 in x 2 5/8 in; 14.6 cm x 6.7 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1996.176
Credit Line:Gift of Josephine Haskell Aldridge in memory of Richard Aldridge (Class of 1952)
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
Graphite wash, as Haskell used it, lies at the intersection of drawing and painting. Once dry, the liquid graphite medium behaves like any pencil mark. This image plays with abstracted forms drawn alternately with an eraser and a brush. The man’s exposed hands are white glyphs, and his face is a contorted mass of advancing and receding planes suspended in a fog of gray wash.

Portrait of a man evokes works by two artists Haskell admired: Édouard Manet and James McNeill Whistler. The nearly abstract treatment of the sitter’s features recalls Manet’s bold portraits, while the diluted quality of the drawing material alludes to Whistler’s mysterious, tonalistic compositions.

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

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