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This is a list of female entertainers of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, in the 1920s. Dancers, choreographers, and orchestra leaders
Anne Brigman (1869–1950), one of the original members of the Photo-Secession movement, images of nude women (including self-portraits) from 1900 to 1920; Charlotte Brooks (1918–2014), photojournalist, staff photographer for Look; Ellen Brooks (born 1946), pro-filmic approach, often photographing through screens
Brooks as a sophomore in high school, 1922. [17] She had worn bobbed hair since childhood. [18]Brooks was born in Cherryvale, Kansas, [19] the daughter of Leonard Porter Brooks, [20] a lawyer, who was usually preoccupied with his legal practice, [21] and Myra Rude, [20] an artistic mother who said that any "squalling brats she produced could take care of themselves". [22]
Becoming modern: young women and the reconstruction of womanhood in the 1920s. (Princeton UP, 2000). On Denmark; contents; Szreter, Simon, and Kate Fisher. Sex before the sexual revolution: Intimate life in England 1918–1963 (Cambridge UP, 2010). Tebbutt, Melanie. Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (née Kennedy; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian-born Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, [1] famous for founding the Foursquare Church.
Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford launched a publicity campaign and built an image as a nationally known flapper by the end of the 1920s. By the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success.
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Fass, Paula S. (2007) The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-502492-0; Gourley, Kathleen (2007) Flappers and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from 1918 Through the 1920s (Images and or of Women in the Twentieth Century). ISBN 978-0-8225-6060-9