[CRANE STEPHEN] Stange Emile View of the Manhattan waterfron

Sale 2416 - Lot 104

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[CRANE, STEPHEN.] Stange, Emile. View of the Manhattan waterfront with a title provided by Stephen Crane: "The Sense of a City is War." Oil on canvas, 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches to sight, laid down on masonite, in gilt frame; inscribed by the artist "To my friend Linson 1894, Emile Stange 1892," and in another hand (presumably Linson's), "The Sense of a City is War--S. Crane." [New Jersey], 1892

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Stephen Crane (1871-1900) lived in Manhattan from 1894 to 1897, a crucial period in which he published "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" and "The Red Badge of Courage" and earned his reputation as a writer. Among his friends during these years were the minor artists Emile Stange and Corwin Linson. Linson later recalled in his memoir of Crane that "Stange had given me a small sketch of a great white cruiser at anchor in the North River against the line of city towers. Steve at once entitled it 'The Sense of A City is War.'" Gullason, Some Aspects of the Mind and Art of Stephen Crane, p. 97; referencing; Linson, My Stephen Crane, p. 37. We offer here the Stange painting he describes, with Crane's title added in what appears to be Linson's hand.