Pascin settled in New York in 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War, remaining until 1920. In New York, Pascin was part of the artists’ circle based around the Penguin Club. Set up by Walter Kuhn in 1916 in a modest East 15th Street brownstone, it hosted weekly drawing classes, exhibitions and an annual ball. Pascin’s playful menu commemorates a meal at Carlos restaurant on 7th July 1917, combining vignettes of people and animals with an inventive menu including Penguin wine, spaghetti ‘Dream of the Orient’ and ‘cheese groteska’. Brodzky had a solo show at the Penguin Club in 1918 and produced a similarly carnivalesque etching, Penguin Stag, the same year.