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Childe Hassam American, 1859-1935 Home Sweet Home Cottage #1, Easthampton, Long Island (John Howard Payne House), 1921 Signed Childe Hassam, inscribed Easthampton and dated June 15th, 1921 (ll) Graphite pencil and gouache on paper laid down to illustration board 11 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches Provenance: The artist, 1921 [With] The Leonard Clayton Gallery, New York Samuel Standard, New York By descent in the family to his nephew Norman Kellar, New Paltz, NY This accomplished drawing depicts the East Hampton home of John Howard Payne, best remembered for Home Sweet Home, the song he wrote in 1822 that became widely popular throughout the English-speaking world. The modest shingle lean-to, said to have inspired the composition, currently houses the Home Sweet Home Museum. According to Kathleen Burnside, "This drawing would certainly seem to have been done in preparation for Hassam's etching, titled The 'Home Sweet Home' Cottage, Easthampton, No. 1 which was catalogued first in 1925 in The Etchings and Dry-Points of Childe Hassam, N.A. of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, With an Introduction by Royal Cortissoz, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1925. It was listed as no. 174, p. 64: 'The Home Sweet Home Cottage, Easthampton 9-7/8 x 11-7/8 inches Signed: June C.H. 1921 in the lower right corner "Made from nature directly on the plate. Consequently subject is reversed. The gable end of the famous old house covered with vines stands behind a fence, which is also covered with vines. In the foreground to the left a large elm-tree which casts its shadow over the roadway. This is where the author of the world-wide known lyric passed his boyhood- and this old house was the motif of the celebrated song. First sung in London a century ago.' Interestingly, the Cortissoz catalogue does not note the existence of a related drawing, as it does for some other etchings. It also says done from nature. Yet the present drawing is undeniably related to this etching.... On the back of the framed drawing is a torn label from Leonard Clayton Gallery: Childe Hassam/ Home Sweet home Cottage #1 / Easthampton, Long Island / Done from... ne 25, 1921" There also exists a watercolor done by Hassam of this same subject, Home Sweet Home Cottage, watercolor, 9 x 11 ¼ inches, signed dated and inscribed at lower left: Childe Hassam. / 1921, Collection of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. The image generally describes the house similarly to the present drawing, which suggests a possible date of 1921. It does not relate to the vantage points of the later etchings." We extend our sincere thanks to Ms. Burnside for her kind assistance in documenting this work. It will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the work of Childe Hassam in preparation by Kathleen M. Burnside and Stuart P. Feld. C Estate of Norman Kellar