American Decades
Important Events in The Arts, 1920–1929
1920
- The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward W. Bok and
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis are the year's sellers. - Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Katherine Dreier organize the New York Societé Anonyme for promoting modern art.
- The Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet of the Chicago Civic Opera is the first American Ballet Company.
- Reginald de Koven's opera Rip Van Winkle is performed by the Chicago Opera Association.
- The Juilliard Foundation is established in New York to encourage music in the United States.
- Joseph Stella paints Brooklyn Bridge.
- Thomas Hart Benton paints Portrait of Josie West.
- Arturo Toscanini and the LaScala Orchestra give their first American performances.
- Jo Davidson sculpts Gertrude Stein.
- Lorado Taft sculpts Fountain of Time.
- On February 2, Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the...
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1920's The Arts
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Headline Makers
- Armstrong, Louis 1901-1971
- Berlin, Irving 1888-1989
- Chaplin, Charlie 1889-1977
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940
- Gershwin, George 1898-1937
- Held, John, Jr. 1889-1958
- Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961
- Hughes, Langston 1902-1967
- Jolson, Al 1866-1950
- Lardner, Ring W. 1885-1933
- O'Neill, Eugene 1888-1953
- Rosenbach, A. S. W. 1876-1952
- Smith, Bessie 1894-1937
- Thalberg, Irving 1899-1936
- People in the News
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- Important Events in The Arts, 1920–1929
