Luchita Hurtado in 2017 in front of a Self-Portrait painted 1950s Luchita Hurtado (1920-2020) was a Venezuelan-born artist whose drawings, paintings, photographs, jewellery and clothing...

Marianne Brandt was the first woman admitted to the Bauhaus design school metalwork department, in 1923, and the only woman ever to receive a degree...

  Continuing our theme celebrating African American culture, we turn our attention to Duke Ellington, arguably the greatest and most charismatic jazz composer and bandleader of the 20th...

Aspiration, Aaron Douglas 1936 Aaron Douglas (1881-1979) was an African American artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and...

A Night Club Map of Harlem, E. Simms Campbell During the years of Prohibition (1920-1933), Harlem in New York City, became a cultural, social and...

Jeanne Mammen with her sculptures late 1940sDuring the years of the Weimar Republic, which followed the collapse of the German Empire, the abdication of Kaiser Wilheim II...

Eileen Gray architect and designer, 1878 - 1976Eileen Gray was an Irish architect and furniture designer, born in Ireland in 1878 and was an early...

Dora Maar with little hands, by Man Ray, 1936Dora Maar, born Henriette Théodora Markovitch in 1907, was a French surrealist photographic artist and painter.  She studied...

Poster for New York World's Fair, by Albert Staehle, 1939Following the 1925 Paris Exposition, the French Art Deco style crossed the Atlantic, and became popular in...