9. John Sloan
(1871-1951)
The Green Hour – Angna Enters

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Sloan: The Green Hour

The Green Hour – Angna Enters

Etching, 1930, 125 x 100 mm., Morse 245 ii/ii, signed in pencil from the edition of 100. Very fine, fresh impression on wove paper with full margins, pinholes for drying at the edges. Sloan did several etchings of Angna Enters, of which this one was apparently his favorite. Enters (1897-1989) was a unique phenomenon of the American stage, creating both the medium and the name of the dance-mime. She developed wordless monologues defining character and had something over 300 individual characters that she mimed for her touring theater. She was also an artist, dancer, writer, and teacher and was internationally known in all fields. The “green” hour was a reference to absinthe, which at one time had become so popular as to define 5 P.M. as the hour at which it was imbibed.