Ernest Haskell (June 30, 1876 - November 1, 1925) was an American artist and illustrator, internationally famous in his lifetime and remembered for his etchings, as well as engravings, pen-and-ink drawings, lithographs and watercolors.

Over the next decade Haskell made three extended trips to Paris, France, for the purpose of conducting independent art studies.

On the first trip he enrolled in a prestigious art school, the Academie Julian, but did not stay, instead devising his own system of studying and practicing.

[6] For a time Ernest was a protege and friend of James McNeill Whistler, who taught him to make etchings.

[6] Upon returning to New York from Paris in the late 1890s Haskell brought with him techniques he had learned in the field of advertising and theatrical posters.

[8] In 1903 he married Elizabeth Louise Foley,[1] a writer and member of New York society, and in 1906 they bought some land and a farmhouse on the coast of Maine in the town of Phippsburg.

When exhibited, these met with critical acclaim,[1] so Haskell became known as a "fine" artist as well as a portraitist and poster lithographer.

[4] He was one of the artists who developed camouflage painting for the United States Army to disguise battleships and to use on soldiers' uniforms.

[12] In 1981 there was a show called "Ernest Haskell: A Retrospective of Prints" at Associated American Artists on Fifth Avenue in New York City, curated by Sylvan Cole Jr.[13] Ernest Haskell's work was included in an exhibition entitled "Three Centuries of American Art" at MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, in 1938.

As of 2017, the property on the coast of Maine, in Phippsburg, where Haskell did some of his later work has been added to the National Register of Historic Places in the United States.