This dwelling within the coronary heart of East Hampton — as soon as owned by the late and legendary photographer Elliott Erwitt — is now in the marketplace for $3.75 million.
Positioned at 17 N. Important St., the property aptly features a 900-square-foot photographer’s-slash-artist’s studio.
Erwitt purchased the one-level, mid-century residence in 1981 and launched into a serious growth in 1989 with East Hampton architect Robert McKinny Barnes.
Erwitt died late final 12 months at age 95 — leaving a legacy of pictures that, partly, inform the story of the second half of the twentieth century. Erwitt’s work, for publications like Life, ranged from quirky to the political and profound, and will be present in museums all over the world.
A onetime president of Magnum Pictures — the long-lasting photographic collective launched by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour in 1947 — Erwitt was recognized for pictures that ranged from canine, photographed from their perspective, to stars like Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart.
That’s all along with photos of revolutionaries like Che Guevara and politicians together with then-Vice President Richard Nixon poking Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev within the chest.
There was even Winston Churchill and Jackie Kennedy, veiled, holding a folded American flag on the burial of her assassinated late husband, President John F. Kennedy.
The three,500-square-foot dwelling comes with 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, two fireplaces and floor-to-ceiling home windows — all on near half an acre. Inside, there’s an awesome room with cathedral ceilings for eating and entertaining, together with a proper lounge with French doorways that open to a south-facing bluestone patio and a pool. The kitchen and eating room each overlook the pool, which is by the artist’s studio.
Lots of Erwitt’s famed pictures are nonetheless in the home and studio like “California Kiss,” which was taken in Santa Monica in 1955 and now hangs over the bar. There’s additionally an East Hampton photograph, from 1998, known as “Sammy on the Seaside.”
The house is correct on the town — however hidden. To maintain it that approach, and along with his signature humorousness, Erwitt as soon as put in two unusual figures on the property.
“[There] are two Japanese police mannequins to frighten drivers so they’d decelerate, pondering they have been actual individuals. Elliott all the time had quirky issues like this in and round his home,” stated his son-in-law Rick Smolan, likewise a famous photographer who’s married to Elliott’s daughter, Jennifer Erwitt.
Jennifer tells Gimme Shelter that the household began going to the East Finish in 1962 — in Amagansett, earlier than East Hampton. Promoting the house, she stated, will likely be “bittersweet.” However, she added, “There are six siblings, and no one can actually take it over. We are going to all miss it. We grew up there.”
The house, Jennifer stated, was a middle for lots of celebrations, particularly for her father’s birthday, each July 26. “He by no means went out. There have been all the time actually attention-grabbing individuals round. It was a pleasant place to hang around and to have a glass of wine or Campari, and never exit to the eating places and fancy locations. That was not his vibe in any respect.”
The itemizing dealer is Jennifer Wilson of Saunders & Associates.