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Your Feb. 29 article on Larry Fleischman's collection of American romantic painters says that John Sloan once attempted to proclaim a republic in Greenwich Village from Washington Square Arch. It was a student of Sloan's, one Gertrude Drick, termed...
Golden Bird," who instigated the revolution. Gertrude Drick (who carried black-bordered cards engraved WOE, "because Woe is me") discovered a way to the Arch's top, decided to stage a revolution, and invited Sloan, Marcel Duchamp and others. After an all-night revelry with lanterns, red balloons and liquor, climaxed by Woe reading her "Declaration of Independence," they left the Arch with balloons still floating from...
...Sloan did an etching of the revolution entitled Arch Conspirators...
...John Sloan, who is usually tagged as a leading practitioner of the Ashcan School, was on vacation from realism in Picnic on the Ridge. On a glorious night near Santa Fe, a group of artists gathers round a picnic fire. Sloan himself is in profile, holding a coffee cup. His wife kneels just behind him. He summered in Santa Fe, but Sloan worked in Greenwich Village and became a sort of guardian spirit of its artists. Once, from the top of Washington Square Arch, he went so far as to proclaim the Village an independent republic...
...Named to succeed the late Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads (TIME, Aug. 24) as president and director of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute: Seattle-born Dr. Frank Lappin Horsfall Jr., 53, vice president and physician in chief of the Rockefeller Institute, specialist in virology and efforts to find drug treatments for viral infections...