57TH CENTURY MANHATTAN
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WINSOR McCAY.
The Last Day of Manhattan.
Pen and ink on paper. 210x415 mm; 8
1
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4
x16
1
/
2
inches. Preliminary drawing illustrating a
story by John Kendrick Bangs published in the New York Herald (Sunday, February 26,
1905). Signed in pencil, lower right. Slightly dust-soiled, crease from folding.
[2,000/3,000]
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The Bangs newspaper piece illustrated by McCay . . . revolves around the creation of a fantastic
imaginary piece of scientific equipment,The Spectrophone.This object allowed the viewer to look ahead
and see into a specific future time . . . In various newspaper installments on The Spectrophone accom-
panied by McCay illustrations, Bangs chronicled how advertising had proliferated in the subway by
1907; what the public libraries of Boston and New York looked like in 1914 . . . and the strange
changes that happened to the NewYork Horse Show in 2263 . . . what McCay illustrated was not
our contemporary destruction, but a distant future disaster in the 57th century when Manhattan, so
over-built both above and below ground, begins to implode”—rockwell-center.org;The Rising Tide. A
fascinating early imagining of Capital run amok by one of the finest American illustrators of the
Twentieth Century.
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FRED MARCELLINO.
World’s End.
Airbrush, watercolor, and colored pencil
on stiff card. 280x202 mm; 11x8 inches.
Cover art for the T. Coraghessan Boyle
novel, NewYork:Viking, 1987. In original
matte and flap with artist’s label.
[4,000/6,000]
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