Weekend Stubble

It's not often you can get a original piece of Transcendentalist art for the price of a used Hyundai, but here's someone selling a Christopher Cranch landscape for $6500:




Given that Poe once lauded Cranch as, ahem, "the least objectionable of the Boston group," I'd recommend that the NY Public Library buy it -- if only it wasn't so busy deaccessioning its 19th century art...