Favorite Celebrations ~ Jazz Age, 1918–1928

Watercolor portrait of Virginia Woolf in warm luminous colors The Jazz Age shimmered with color and possibility. Music loosened, stories stretched, and artists trusted what the heart could express. It was a time of movement, rhythm, courage, and imagination, a decade when creativity found its own bold light.

At the center of this page is a luminous reminder from Virginia Woolf, whose voice shaped the era’s inward brilliance: “Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.”

Below are Daily Celebrations honoring the writers, artists, performers, musicians, pioneers, and dreamers whose work helped define a decade that still glows in memory.

ARTISTS
Coco Chanel
Pablo Picasso


PERFORMERS
Maude Adams
Isadora Duncan
Ethel Waters


PIONEERS
Clarence Birdseye
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
Steamboat Willie
Frank Lloyd Wright


LEADERS
Calvin Coolidge
Mahatma Gandhi
Margaret Sanger

MUSICIANS
Ira Gershwin
Cole Porter


SPORTS STARS
Gertrude Ederle
Duke Kahanamoku

WRITERS
John Cage
Agatha Christie
T.S. Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
A.A. Milne
George Santayana
Gertrude Stein
Virginia Woolf


TIMELINES
B.C.
12th–15th Century
16th–18th Century
Wild West
Depression
1950s
1960s