JOHN SLOAN (1871 1951) Arch Conspirators

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JOHN SLOAN (1871 - 1951)

Arch Conspirators.
Etching on laid paper, 1917. 110x150 mm; 4½x6 inches, full margins. Edition of 100. Signed, titled, and inscribed "100 proofs" in pencil, lower margin and signed by the printer Ernest Roth and inscribed "imp." in pencil, lower left. Morse 183.

As noted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art; "A mid-winter party on the roof of the Washington Square Arch. Depicted from left are Charles Frederick Ellis, Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude S. Drick, Allen Russell Mann, Betty Turner, and John Sloan. According to Sloan, that evening a document was drawn up to establish the secession of Greenwich Village from the United States and claiming protection of President Wilson as one of the small nations. Sloan also notes, the door to the Arch stairway remained locked following this incident."

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Artists celebrating on top of the Washington Square Arch for the establishment of the mock, bohemian "secession of Greenwich Village from the United States," including Marcel Duchamp (standing), the actor Charles Ellis (far left, seated), the poet Gertrude Drick (left-center) and Sloan (1871-1951) himself (at the far right, in profile with a pipe).