Modernism

By jtaplin
  • Steiglitz shows O'Keefe Nudes at Anderson Galleries

    Steiglitz shows O'Keefe Nudes at Anderson Galleries

  • Ernest Hemingway moves to Paris

    Ernest Hemingway moves to Paris

  • Hemingway meets Gertrude Stein

    Letter of introduction from Sherwood Anderson
    ?
  • Stein introduces Hemingway to Ezra Pound and Pable Picasso

    Stein introduces Hemingway to Ezra Pound and Pable Picasso

  • Louis Armstrong joins Joe Oliver's Band in Chicago

    Louis Armstrong joins Joe Oliver's Band in Chicago

  • T.S.Eliot-The Waste Land

    T.S.Eliot-The Waste Land

    published in The Dial Magazine
  • Lee DeForest's first exhibition of "talking pictures"

    Lee DeForest's first exhibition of "talking pictures"

  • Ford's International Push Begins

    England and France, followed by Denmark (1923), Germany (1925), Austria (1925), and Argentina (1925), and also in South Africa (1924)and Australia (1925) as subsidiaries of Ford of Canada due to preferential tariff rules for Commonwealth countries. By the end of 1919, Ford was producing 50 percent of all cars in the United States, and 40% of all British cars.
    ?
  • William Carlos Williams-The Red Wheelbarrow

    William Carlos Williams-The Red Wheelbarrow

  • Louis Armstrong and Joe Oliver-New Orleans Stomp

    Louis Armstrong and Joe Oliver-New Orleans Stomp

    Okeh Records
  • Edward Weston-Nude, Mexico

    Edward Weston-Nude, Mexico

  • GM buys Vauxhall in UK for $2 million.

    GM buys Vauxhall in UK for $2 million.

  • Bell Labs founded

    Bell Labs founded

    ?
  • Charlie Chaplin-The Gold Rush

    Charlie Chaplin-The Gold Rush

  • RCA forms National Broadcasting Company

    RCA forms National Broadcasting Company

  • Hemingway's "Sun Also Rises" published

    Hemingway's "Sun Also Rises" published

  • Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five record "West End Blues"

    Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five record "West End Blues"

  • RCA acquires Victor Talking Machine Company

    RCA acquires Victor Talking Machine Company

    ?
  • Hemingway's "Farewell to Arms" published

    Hemingway's "Farewell to Arms" published

  • Black Monday-Wall Street Crash

    Black Monday-Wall Street Crash

  • Lewis Milestone-All Quiet on the Western Front

    Lewis Milestone-All Quiet on the Western Front

  • Charlie Chaplin-City Lights

    Charlie Chaplin-City Lights

  • RCA PB-31-Ribbon Microphone released

    RCA PB-31-Ribbon Microphone released

    Changed audio recording
  • Louis Armstrong records "Lazy River"

    Louis Armstrong records "Lazy River"

    First scat singing
  • Franklin Roosevelt Inauguration

    Franklin Roosevelt Inauguration

  • Black Mountain College founded

    Black Mountain College founded

    By John Andrew Rice, recently fired from Rollins College

  • Joseph Albers joins Black Mountain College Faculty

    ?
  • Leo McCarey-Duck Soup

    Leo McCarey-Duck Soup

    Herman Mankiewitz-co-producer
  • O'Keefe's first Ghost Ranch paintings

    O'Keefe's first Ghost Ranch paintings

  • Federal Theater Project established

    Federal Theater Project established

  • de Kooning and Pollock start work for the Federal Art Project

    de Kooning and Pollock start work for the Federal Art Project

  • David Siqueiros runs workshop for General Strike for Peace and May Day parade.

    David Siqueiros runs workshop for General Strike for Peace and May Day parade.

    Jackson Pollack attends and creates parade float
  • Orson Welles' African American production of "Macbeth"

    Orson Welles' African American production of "Macbeth"

  • Photo League founded

    Paul Strand, Berniece Abbot, Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-white, Lewis Hine, Dorethea Lange
  • James Agee and Walker Evans begin Sharecropper research for Fortune Magazine

    James Agee and Walker Evans begin Sharecropper research for Fortune Magazine

    Became Let Us now Praise Famous Men
  • "Cradle Will Rock" opens at Venice Theater, New York

    "Cradle Will Rock" opens at Venice Theater, New York

    Mark Blitzstein writer
    Orson Welles Director
    Federal Theater Project
  • Welles' "Julius Caesar" opens on Broadway

    Welles' "Julius Caesar" opens on Broadway

    Longest running Broadway shakespeare play
  • de Kooning's "Two Men Standing"

    de Kooning's "Two Men Standing"

  • Spirituals to Swing Concert at Carnegie Hall

    Spirituals to Swing Concert at Carnegie Hall

    Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson, Helen Humes, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, Mitchell's Christian Singers, the Golden Gate Quartet, James P. Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry

  • Bell Labs announces first electric computer

    Model 1 Relay Computer
    ?
  • Einstein-Szilrd letter sent to President Roosevelt

    Einstein-Szilrd letter sent to President Roosevelt

    Beginning of the Atomic Age
  • Victor Fleming-The Wizard of Oz

    Victor Fleming-The Wizard of Oz

    Herman Mankiewitz- first screeplay
  • Production of "Citizen Kane" begins

    Production of "Citizen Kane" begins

    Orson Welles
  • Pete Seeger and Lee Hays form Almanac Singers

    Pete Seeger and Lee Hays form Almanac Singers

    Fundraiser for Spanish Civil War loyalists at the Jade Mountain Restaurant, NYC
    ?
  • Premiere of Citizen Kane

    Premiere of Citizen Kane

  • Jay McShann records "Confessin' the Blues" with Charlie Parker on Sax

    Jay McShann records "Confessin' the Blues" with Charlie Parker on Sax

    Parker's first recording date
    ?

  • Roosevelt establishes Fair Employment Practices Committee

  • "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" published

    "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" published

    ?
  • Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

    Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

  • Paul Strand's film "Native Land" released

  • Robert Oppenheimer convenes Atomic bomb group in Berkeley, CA

    Robert Oppenheimer convenes Atomic bomb group in Berkeley, CA

    Hans Bethe, John Van Vleck, Edward Teller, Felix Bloch, Emil Konopinski, Robert Serber, Stanley S. Frankel,

  • Musican's strike against the record companies

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory opens

    Los Alamos National Laboratory opens

  • Detroit Race Riot

    Detroit Race Riot

  • Musican's strike ends

  • Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker at Town Hall

    Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker at Town Hall

    The birth of hard bop
  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

    Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • Bell Labs patents first solar cell

    Bell Labs patents first solar cell

  • Louis Armstrong Concert at Town Hall

    Louis Armstrong Concert at Town Hall

    Jack Teagarden
  • First Hollywood HUAC hearing

    First Hollywood HUAC hearing

    ?
  • Congress cites Hollywood Ten for Contempt

    Congress cites Hollywood Ten for Contempt

  • Pollack exhibits "No. 5" -Key drip painting

    Pollack exhibits "No. 5" -Key drip painting

    ?
  • Black Mountain College Summer session begins

    Black Mountain College Summer session begins

    Students-Arthur Penn, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, James Leo Herlihy and Ruth Asawa. Teachers-John Cage, Merce Cunningham,Joseph Albers, Willem de Kooning, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall and Buckminster Fuller

  • FCC orders freeze of TV broadcasting licenses

    NBC and CBS consolidate local control
  • de Kooning's first solo exhibit at Charles Egan Gallery

    de Kooning's first solo exhibit at Charles Egan Gallery

    New York
    ?
  • Pete Seeger forms The Weavers

    Pete Seeger forms The Weavers

  • Paul Strand goes into European exile

  • Weaver's "Goodnight Irene" reaches #1 on pop charts

    Weaver's "Goodnight Irene" reaches #1 on pop charts

    ?
  • Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Wheeling Speech

    Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Wheeling Speech

    Held a list of "known Communists" working in the State Department

  • NSC-68 issued

    Top Secret Cold War strategy
  • Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's "Declaration of Conscience" speech

    Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's "Declaration of Conscience" speech

    Takes on Joe McCarthy
  • Bell Labs announces the "Junction Transistor"

    Bell Labs announces the "Junction Transistor"

  • Right Wing groups start picketing Weaver's concerts

  • Dwight Eisenhower Inaugurated

    Dwight Eisenhower Inaugurated

  • de Kooning's "Women" paintings shown at Sidney Janis Gallery

    de Kooning's "Women" paintings shown at Sidney Janis Gallery

    ?

  • Weavers Blacklisted-Radio play ended

    Decca ends contract and withdraws recordings from catalogue
  • Edward R. Murrow takes on Sen. Joe McCarthy

    Edward R. Murrow takes on Sen. Joe McCarthy

    See it Now

  • Sen Ralph Flanders introduces McCarthy Censure Resolution

  • Senate votes to censure McCarthy

    Senate votes to censure McCarthy

  • Pete Seeger subpoened by HUAC

    Pete Seeger subpoened by HUAC