16 Facts About Bruce Crane

Bruce Crane joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 1900s.

Bruce Crane developed into a Tonalist painter under the influence of Jean-Charles Cazin at Grez-sur-Loing.

Bruce Crane usually painted in his studio in Bronxville, New York, where like many of the Tonalists he relied mostly on memories of his outdoor sketching experiences.

Bruce Crane is a descendant of the Continental Congressman Stephen Crane.

Bruce Crane's father, Solomon Crane, was an amateur artist himself and interested his son in the New York art scene from a young age.

Wyant asked to see some of Crane's work, but Bruce did not believe that his skills were adequate enough to impress Wyant.

The first the writer ever heard of Cranford was back in 1880, when his artist friend Bruce Crane told him that he was packing up his sketching apparatus and impedimentia preparatory to going to sketch in the neighborhood of Cranford, which he considered one of the most delightfully picturesque sections of country anywhere around or near New York City.

Bruce Crane had [by 1885] proved to the satisfaction of the art public that he handled one kind of landscape with as much ability as another.

Bruce Crane then left New York to study in France with Jean-Charles Cazin, a well known French painter of the 19th century.

Bruce Crane experienced success there but things were about to change.

Bruce Crane married Ann Brainered two years later, despite a 25-year age gap.

From 1929 to 1933, Bruce Crane was the President of the famed Salmagundi Club of New York City and its artist of the year in 1902.

Bruce Crane was associated with the Grand Central Art Galleries, participating in its 1933 members' drawing.

Bruce Crane grew frail after breaking both of his hips in a fall in 1935, nearly immobilizing him.

Bruce Crane spent the remainder of his years in Bronxville before passing on October 29,1937.

Descendants of Bruce Crane can be found living in Virginia and California.