Arch Conspirators
Date1917
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 4 1/8 × 5 13/16 in. (10.5 × 14.8 cm)
sheet: 9 7/16 × 12 11/16 in. (24 × 32.2 cm)
sheet: 9 7/16 × 12 11/16 in. (24 × 32.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1963
Object number1963-20.110
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextIn the winter of 1917, a group of artists (including Sloan) held a party on the roof of the Washington Square Arch in New York. They sat on hot water bottles and had a picnic of sandwiches and coffee while they formulated a plan to make Greenwich Village, then a haven for artists, an independent nation by seceding from the United States. Marcel Duchamp (standing on the left) joined Sloan (pictured on the right) and his friends for this merry gathering.
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