How was Marcel Duchamp received when he arrived in New York City in 1915?

When Marcel Duchamp arrived in New York City in June 1915, he was welcomed by reporters as a famous man, largely due to the notoriety of his painting Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), which had been a sensation at the 1913 Armory Show.1

His reception in intellectual circles was warm, which helped raise his spirits during the war. The wealthy poet and collector Walter Arensberg provided him with a studio in his own home, and Duchamp quickly became the center of the Arensberg group. While many art galleries were eager to represent him based on his reputation as the painter of the Nude, he declined these offers, preferring to support himself by giving French lessons rather than pursuing a full-time career as a painter.1