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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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| 1953 |
| | | US architect Louis Kahn makes his reputation with the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning exhibits his series Women nos I-VI, on which he has been working since 1938 | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames design a much copied lounge chair and footstool, made of moulded plywood with padded leather cushions | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Andy Warhol creates a stir when his paintings of Campbell's soup cans are exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles | |
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| 1965 |
| | | An exhibition in New York, 'The Responsive Eye', puts op art on the map | |
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| 1968 |
| | | US artist Sol LeWitt buries a metal cube in the Netherlands to create Box in a Hole | |
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