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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