Art and Literature Stories
Paintings, books, theatre and architecture: when works were made, shown or published, with sources from museums and archives.
1957
1957 · Art & Literature
Evelyn Waugh publishes The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
July 19, 19571951
1951 · Art & Literature
The Catcher in the Rye is published
July 16, 19511951
1951 · Art & Literature
The Ninth Street Show opens in New York
May 21, 19511941
1941 · Art & Literature
The Final Drilling at Mount Rushmore
October 31, 19411941
1941 · Art & Literature
Norman Rockwell introduces Willie Gillis to magazine readers
October 4, 19411937
1937 · Art & Literature
Tolkien’s The Hobbit is published
September 21, 19371936
1936 · Art & Literature
The First Issue of LIFE's Picture Magazine Appears
November 23, 19361932
1932 · Art & Literature
Radio City Music Hall Opens
December 27, 1932
1927 · Art & Literature
Carving Begins at Mount Rushmore
October 4, 19271925
1925 · Art & Literature
The New Yorker publishes its first issue
February 21, 19251922
1922 · Art & Literature
James Joyce’s Ulysses appears in book form
February 2, 19221915
1915 · Art & Literature