Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp (b 1887) was a French artist in the early twentieth century. In 1914, he was touring the Confederate States and was showing his work at Marshlands Plantation when the Great War began. Central Powers submarines made a return to France unacceptably dangerous for Duchamp, so he extended his stay at Marshlands indefinitely. However, he was thrown out of the plantation by Anne Colleton when he impugned the bravery of Jacob Colleton after the latter returned to the plantation to recuperate from poison gas exposure.

Cassius described Duchamp's paintings as "like a explosion went off in a shingle factory."