1920's The Arts | 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...