Influential Artists in the 20’s and 30’s

Since we've been trying to find as many artists from the 20's and 30's as we could, I decided to start a list where we can add all the artists we can come up with, I wrote down a "few" already :)      cheers, César 

Influential Artists in the 20’s and 30’s

Literature

1. Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, crime writer, "Murder on the Orient Express"
2. Charles Lee Smith, 1887-1964, attorney, author, atheist activist, "Truth Seeker"
3. Christopher Isherwood, 1904-1986, novelist, "The Berlin Stories", "Frankenstein: the true story"
4. D.H.Lawrence 1907–1930, novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
5. e.e. Cummings, 1894-1962, poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright, "Tulips and chimneys", "Fairytales"
6. Edith Wharton, 1962-1937, Novelist, "The Age of Innocence"
7. Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950, lyrical poet, "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare"
8. Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, writer and journalist, "The Old Man and the Sea"
9. Eugene O'Neill, 1888-1953, playwright, "The Iceman Cometh", "The Great God Brown", "Ah, Wilderness!"
10. Ezra Pound, 1885-1972, poet and  literary critic, "Ripostes", "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"
11. F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940, writer, "The Great Gatsby"
12. Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, "Forever Someone Else", "Message", "Book of Disquiet"
13. George Orwell, 1903-1950, novelist, journalist, "Animal Farm", "Nineteen Eighty-Four", "Keep the Aspidistra Flying"
14. Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, experimental novelist, poet and playwright, "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"
15. H.G. Wells, 1866-1946, writer, "The War of the Worlds"
16. H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic, "The American Language"
17. Haldous Huxley, 1894-1963, writer, "Brave New World"
18. Harper Lee, 1926-1961, writer, "To Kill a Mockingbird"
19. Hart Crane, 1899-1932, poet, "The Bridge"
20. James Joyce, 1882-1941, novelist, poet, Ulysses, "Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "Finnegans Wake"
21. John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, writer, "Of Mice and Men", "The Grapes of Wrath", "East of Eden"
22. J R.R. Tolkien, 1892-1973, writer, poet, philologist, "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", "The Silmarillion"
23. Langston Hughes, 1902-1967, poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist, "The Weary Blues"
24. Luigi Pirandello, 1867-1936, dramatist, novelist, poet, "Playful Evil", The Man, "The Beast and The Virtue"
25. Robert Frost 1874-1963, poet, "The Gift Outright"
26. Sinclair Lewis, 1885-1951, novelist, playwright, "Main Street"
27. T.S. Eliot 1888-1965, poet and literary critic, "The Waste land"
28. Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, writer, "Mrs Dalloway", "To the Lighthouse", "Orlando"
29. William C Williams, 1883-1963, poet, "The Red Wheelbarrow", "Spring and All", "Paterson"
30. William Faulkner, 1897-1962, writer, "As I lay Dying"
31. W.H. Auden, 1907-1973, poet, "The Age of Anxiety"

Theatre

Eugene O'Neill, ,playwright, "A Long Day's Journey Into Night"

Cinema

1. Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps
2. Carl Dreyer, Vampyr
3. Charles Chaplin, City Lights, Modern Times
4. Frank Capra, Mr. Smith goes to New York
5. Fritz Lang, M
6. Harold Young, The Scarlet Pimpernel
7. Howard Hawks, Scarface,
8. Jack Conway, A Tale of Two Cities
9. James Whale, Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein
10. Jean Renoir, The Rules of the Game
11. Jean Vigo, L’Atalante
12. Josef Sternberg, The Blue Angel
13. Leo McCarey, Duck Soup
14. Lewis Milestone, Of Mice and Men
15. Mark Sandrich, Top Hat
16. Merian Cooper, King Kong
17. Merwyn LeRoy, Little Caeser
18. Michael Curtiz, The Adventures of Robin Wood, Angels with dirty faces
19. William Dieterle, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
20. Orson Wells, 1915-1985, actor, director, writer, "Citizen Kane"
21. Sam Wood, A Night at the Opera
22. Tod Browning, Dracula, Freaks
23. Victor Fleming, Gone with the Wind, “The Wizard of Oz
24. William Gotrell, Snow White and the seven Dwarfs
25. W.S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man, Manhattan Melodrama

Painting

1. Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French Impressionist Painter
2. Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, French Realist/Impressionist Painter and Sculptor
3. Edvard Munch, 1863-1944, Norwegian Symbolist/Expressionist Painter
4. Edward Hopper, 1882-1967, American Scene Painter       
5. Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986, American Painter
6. Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918, Austrian Art Nouveau Painter
7. H. Matisse, 1869-1954, French Fauvist Painter and Sculptor
8. Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956, American Abstract Expressionist Painter
9. Joan Miró i Ferrà, 1893-1983, Spanish Surrealist Painter and Sculptor
10. Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish Cubist Painter and Sculptor
11. Paul Cézanne, 1839-1906, French Post-Impressionist Painter
12. Paul Klee, 1879-1940, Swiss Expressionist Painter
13. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919, French Impressionist Painter
14. Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish Surrealist Painter
15. Vasilij Kandinskij, 1866-1944, Russian-born French Expressionist Painter

           

Arquitecture

1. Art Deco - Le Corbusier, 1887-1965, architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, 
2. Bauhaus - Walter Gropius, 1883-1969, German architect,
3. Constructivist – Vladimir Tatlin, 1885-1953, painter and architect
4. De Stijl (Neoplasticism) - Theo Van Doesburg, 1883-1931, painter, writer, poet, architect,
5. Fascist - Giuseppe Terragni, Marcello Piacentini, and Albert Speer.
6. Functionalism – Louis Sullivan, 1856-1924, American Architect aka “father of skyscrapers”
7. Futurist – Antonio Sant'Elia, Mario Chiattone, architects, and Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti, 1876-1944, poet and editor
8. International Style - Henry Hitchcock, 1903-1987, architectural historian,  and Philip Johnson, 1906-2005, architect,
9. Neues Bauen (New objectivity) - Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer's
10. Organic Architecture and Usonia – Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959, American architect, interior designer, writer and educator
11. Streamline Moderne (Art Moderne)(new Art Deco in the 30’s) Raymond Loewy, Walter Dorwin Teague, Gilbert Rohde, Norman Bel Geddes

Music

1. Al Jolson, 1886-1950, American singer, comedian, and actor
2. Benjamin Selvin, 1898-1980, musician, bandleader, record producer and innovator
3. Benny Meroff, 1899-1973, composer and musician
4. Benny Goodman, 1909-1986, American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader
5. Duke Ellington, 1899-1974, American composer, pianist, and big-band leader
6. Guy Lombardo, 1902-1977, Canadian-American bandleader and violinist.
7. Harry Richman, 1895-1972, singer, actor, dancer, comedian, pianist, songwriter, bandleader, and night club performer
8. Leo Reisman, 1897-1961, violinist and bandleader  
9. Nat Shilkret, 1889-1982, American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director
10. Paul Whiteman, 1890-1967, American bandleader and orchestral director
11. Rudy Vallee, 1901-1986, American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer
12. Ruth Etting, 1897-1978, American singing star and actress
13. Roy Ingraham, 1895-1988, Songwriter, composer and conductor
14. Son House, 1902-1988, American blues singer and guitarist
15. Ted lewis, 1890-1971, American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician
16. Ted Weems, 1901-1963, American bandleader and musician
17. Tommy Dorsey, 1905-1956, American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader