Solo exhibition Leipziger Kunstverein, Leipzig

Angelica and Alexander Archipenko move to the USA. They arrive in New York on board the S.S. Mongolia on October 16.

“America is the only country not jaded and rent by war. It is the land where the great art of the future will be produced. America fires my imagination more than any other country and embodies more of that flexibility, that yeastiness, which means life and vitality and movement.” –Alexander Archipenko, 1923

Opens art school in New York, address possibly 44 W 57th Street.

Several publications in Europe by authors Hans Hildebrandt, Erich Wiese, Maurice Raynal, Ljubomir Micic

January 20 – February 4: Solo exhibition at Kingore Gallery, New York, under the auspieces of The Société Anonyme

Teaches summer art school in Woodstock, New York.

Reprint of Sturm Bilderbuch II of 1917, with text by Roland Schacht

Receives patents for “Archipentura”, an "Apparatus for Displaying Changeable Pictures and Method for Decorating Changeable Display Apparatus."


Exhibition, The Anderson Galleries, New York, organized by Katherine Dreier and the Société Anonyme. Presents Archipentura for first time, catalog essay by Alexander Archipenko.

Archipentura is lost in 1935.

Purchase of 13 acres of land on rock quarry site in Bearsville, near Woodstock, New York.

Becomes American citizen.

Establishes “Arko,” a school of ceramics in New York City.

February 22 – March 8: Solo show at The Arts Club of Chicago

April - October: Participates at “Contemporary American Sculpture,” The California Palace of The Legion Of Honor, San Francisco.

Solo show at Braxton Gallery, Hollywood. Collector and filmmaker Josef von Sternberg purchases 18 works from the exhibition.