The Delaware Art Museum returns visitors to the 1920s during “Jazz Age Illustration,” the first major exhibition to survey the art of popular illustration in the United States between 1919 and 1942.

STOCKBRIDGE — The Jazz Age, which took its name from a new type of music, is most associated with a new type of high-spirited, even hedonistic behavior: flappers dancing the Charleston, people in ...

In the glittering world of the 1920s, cocktails were more than drinks — they were cultural statements. Despite Prohibition, or perhaps because of it, Americans of the Jazz Age elevated cocktail ...

The exhibition hearkens back to the visual style of the early 20th century, with art from magazine covers and album art to cartoons. The Jazz Age Illustration exhibition celebrates the creative spirit ...

In 1921, while William Samuel Paley was still a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald wrote a story called “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” published it in his ...

Exhibition catalog published on the occassion of the exhibition, The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, April 7 to August 20, 2017, and The Cleveland ...

There's a reason historians keep circling back to jazz. Not because it's the most commercially dominant genre today - honestly, it isn't - but because few forces in American history moved through so ...