Considered one of the greatest jazz composers of all time, Duke Ellington had an enormous impact on the popular music of the late 20th century. Today his recordings remain among the most popular jazz of the big-band era.
Known for his extended study of Washington Square Park and his distorted nudes of the 1930s, Andre Kertész was a quiet but important influence on the coming of age of photojournalism and the art of photography.
Considered the greatest Mexican painter of the 20th century, Diego Rivera had a profound effect on the international art world. Rivera is credited with the reintroduction of fresco painting into modern art and architecture.
In the summer of 1931, three young idealists, Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg, were inspired by a passionate dream of transforming the American theater.
