American Decades

Important Events in The Arts, 1920–1929

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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