Home Sweet Home Cottage, No. 3, Easthampton

1928

Childe Hassam

Associated Names
Childe Hassam

Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

The image shows a rustic, vine-covered house. The house fills the entire frame, with a symmetrical facade featuring windows and a slightly open door revealing a staircase inside. The etching technique creates detailed textures of the vines, shadows, and reflections on the windows. The color scheme is monochrome in shades of black and grey. Sunlight filters through tree branches, framing the house.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Fred Rieth

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.54 × 27.46 cm (8 7/8 × 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1968.10.16

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 292

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1989

  • Cortissoz, Royal, and the Leonard Clayton Gallery. Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of Childe Hassam, N.A.. San Francisco, California: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989, pp. 181-82, no. 292.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp.

Wikidata ID

Q65508033

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