For Edvard Munch, 1893 was a year of screams. In the fall, the Norwegian artist produced two versions of The Scream, his now iconic image of personal and universal anguish. 1 "You know my picture, The Scream?" he later wrote."I was being stretched to the limit—nature was screaming in my blood—I was at a breaking point." 2 The same year, Munch …