1929

• Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City; Goodwin and Stone, architects

1930

• Ray Hood designs Daily News Building, New York City
• The comic strip "Blondie" appears in U.S. newspapers
• Grant Wood paints "American Gothic"
• The Chrysler Building goes up in New York City; William Van Alen, architect

1931

• Edward Hopper paints "Route 6, Eastham"
• Construction of Rockefeller Center begins in New York City; Ray Hood, chief architect
• Empire State Building is completed, New York City

1932

• Grant Wood paints "Daughters of the American Revolution"
• Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson exhibit "The International Style" of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art

1933

• Approximately 60,000 artists (actors, painters, musicians, etc. emigrate from Germany ( --1939)
• 1933 World's Fair, "A Century of Progress," runs in Chicago

1934

• Cass Gilbert, American architect (Woolworth Building, N.Y.C.), dies
• "Machine Art" exhibition at MoMA, Philip Johnson

1935

1936

• Construction is completed on Boulder (Hoover) Dam, creating Lake Mead from the Colorado River
• Henry Luce begins publication of "Life" magazine

1937

• Paul Mellon endows National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• President Roosevelt dedicates Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River in Oregon
• Lincoln Tunnel completed between New York and New Jersey
• Golden Gate Bridge opens in San Francisco
• John D. Rockefeller (b. 1839) and Andrew Mellon (b. 1855) die

1938

• Frank Lloyd Wright builds Taliesan West, Phoenix, Arizona
• Walter Gropius and Marcel Breur design Haggerty House, Cohasset, Massachusetts
• The Cloisters is built in upper Manhattan as a branch of the Metropolitan Museum to house medieval art (endowed by Rockefeller)
• Bartlett Dam completed in Arizona

1939

• 1939 World's Fair, "The World of Tomorrow," runs in New York City (through 1940)

1940