Bandit's Cave

John French Sloan

Six American Etchings (Series I) was a portfolio offered in December 1924 by The New Republic to entice new subscriptions to the weekly magazine. The subscription form offered readers a year's subscription, with this set, for $8.00. The artists included Peggy Bacon, Ernest Haskell, Edward Hopper, John Marin, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. Each impression was pencil signed and was printed by Peter J. Platt on ivory Handmade Van Gelder wove paper. Zigrosser thought that the edition might have exceeded 500 impressions. This set is accompanied by the original cover which lists the artists and the titles of their etchings. On this set, the title of John Marin's Brooklyn Bridge was crossed out and words Lower Manhattan were written in ink. Brooklyn Bridge No. 6 (Swaying) was offered in a few sets before being replaced with Downtown the El, as with this set.