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| 1919 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp adds a moustache and beard to a postcard of the Mona Lisa, and gives it the subtly offensive French title LHOOQ | |
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| c. 1923 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp completes his large glass construction The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even | |
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| 1925 |
| | | House by the Railroad, by US painter Edward Hopper, introduces a new style of urban realism | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Gutzon Borglum begins the massive task of carving portraits of four US presidents in the rock face at Mount Rushmore | |
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| 1932 |
| | | The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has his first exhibition, in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp coins the term 'mobile' for Alexander Calder's new suspended art form | |
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| 1938 |
| | | American naïve painter Grandma Moses has her first exhibition in a local drug store at the age of 78 | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen design an 'organic chair' for mass production in moulded plywood and aluminium | |
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| 1946 |
| | | A new style of American painting, involving artists such as Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, is given the name Abstract Expressionism | |
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| 1947 |
| | | US artist Jackson Pollock's drip paintings cause a stir in New York | |
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