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Great Depression: 1929–1941 ... to a generation of performers who became famous as recording artists or radio artists. ... 20, 2022, rap artist Flo Milli released ...
The Ten, also known as The Ten Whitney Dissenters, were a group of New York–based artists active from 1935 to 1940. [1] [a] Expressionist in tendency, the group was founded to gain exposure for its members during the economic difficulty of the Great Depression, and also in response to the popularity of Regionalism which dominated the gallery space its members sought.
William Lee Cumming (March 24, 1917 – November 22, 2010) [1] was a noted 20th-century American artist, often associated with the Northwest School.A controversial figure - he was a hardcore Stalinist for a long period, was married seven times, and was generally outspoken and opinionated [2] - he eventually came to be respected as an important innovator and highly distinctive stylist in modern ...
During the 1920s and the 1930s and the Great Depression, the European art scene was characterized by Surrealism, late Cubism, the Bauhaus, De Stijl, Dada, Neue Sachlichkeit, and Expressionism; and was occupied by masterful modernist color painters like Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard.
The most famous jazz versions were recorded by Benny Goodman in 1936 and 1947. [91] Fletcher Henderson played it in 1934 in the Harlem Opera House as the "national anthem of Harlem". [92] "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" [46] [93] is a song from the Broadway show The New Moon, composed by Sigmund Romberg with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
Image credits: Chesnot #7 Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 — April 8, 1973) Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist known as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century African-American artists and Category:20th-century American male artists and Category:20th-century Native American artists and Category:20th-century American women artists The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
One of the most famous of the Depression-era productions of the Theater Project of the Works Progress Administration is a jazzed version of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, called The Swing Mikado. [399] Adelina García begins recording and performing on the radio, soon becoming the most popular American singer of the Mexican bolero song. [117]