The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London

Aristide Maillol has his first major success with a large sculpture at the Salon d'Automne in Paris

Jacob Epstein causes a stir with his provocatively modern angel on the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Père Lachaise

Marcel Duchamp creates Bicycle Wheel, his first 'assisted readymade', consisting of the wheel screwed upside down on a painted wooden stool

Italian Futurist sculptor Umberto Boccioni suggests human movement in his Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Wyndham Lewis and others launch Vorticism with a new magazine, Blast

Marcel Duchamp exhibits his first pure 'readymade', a bottle rack bought in a department store and displayed without alteration

The Russian painter and sculptor Vladimir Tatlin develops an abstract style to which he gives the name Constructivism

The sculptor Constantin Brancusi has his first one-man exhibition, at Stieglitz's gallery in New York

Jacob Epstein completes his sculpture The Rock Drill, the outstanding work of the Vorticist movement

Eric Gill completes his Stations of the Cross for Westminster Cathedral

Vladimir Tatlin's model for a gigantic Monument to the Third International becomes one of the most significant examples of Constructivism

Marcel Duchamp completes his large glass construction The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even

Gutzon Borglum begins the massive task of carving portraits of four US presidents in the rock face at Mount Rushmore

English sculptor Henry Moore receives his first public commission, for the headquarters of London Underground

English sculptor Barbara Hepworth has her first solo exhibition, at the Beaux Arts gallery in London

English sculptor Henry Moore has his first solo exhibition, at the Warren Gallery in London

Henri Matisse completes his Backsequence – four progressively simplified bronze relief sculptures (Nus de Dos)

Marcel Duchamp coins the term 'mobile' for Alexander Calder's new suspended art form

British artist Ben Nicholson does the first of his characteristic abstract white reliefs

Leading British artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson marry

Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson move their studios to St Ives

After his London studio is bombed, Henry Moore moves to Much Hadham, where he works and lives for the rest of his life

Pablo Picasso transforms a bicycle's handlebars and saddle into Head of a Bull

Commissioned by a church in Northampton to sculpt a Madonna and Child, British sculptor Henry Moore produces the first of his family groups