The 1920s made a whole lot of noise. On the precipice of the Great Depression, the decade made its mark on American history with glamorous living and social evolution. World War I had ended. The stock ...

A century ago, American artists and designers were reveling in the newfound aesthetics of world cultures, and one of the most fervent “crazes” was for Japanese design. A vignette illustrating the ...

"Lighthouse Hill," 1927, Edward Hopper, American, oil on canvas 29 1/16 x 40 1/4 inches The Roaring ’20s. The Jazz Age. The third decade of the 20th century was a turbulent, yeasty period in American ...

In this short article, which was published in the first issue of Proletarier (October 1920, the original can be found in the file below), Franz Jung talks about his conception of the Proletkult — ...

Madeleine Vionnet; all top designers of the era who captured the new spirit of urban America and freed women from their corseted past. “As I began to curate this collection, it struck me that the 1920 ...

Go back a century to the 1920s and the Litchfield County Fair, or any of the state’s big agricultural fairs for that matter, and you might pass the booth where, for a small sum, New Haven artist Ruth ...

“Nothing is more exotic than what surrounds us, nothing is more imaginative than objectivity,” said the Austrian-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch in 1925. Kisch is among the dozens of writers, painters, ...

To capture the spirit of the Savannah Art Association, just visit its gallery. In rooms filled with sunlight, rows of paintings and photographs hang. There are ceramics, woodwork and sculpture, all ...