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In 1921, Jackson’s brother Charles moved to Los Angeles to take a job at The Los Angeles Times. He also enrolled in the Otis Art Institute and sent home issues of the art magazine, The Dial. Over forty years later, on his deathbed, Sanford would thank Charles for sending copies of The Dial. “He said they meant a lot to him and Jack,” Charles remembered[23]. Later Charles also sent American Mercury (1924–33), the controversial literary magazine published by Henry Louis Mencken (1880–1956), who was a columnist on The Baltimore Sun, from 1906 until his death.

These publications brought visions of East Coast sophistication to the young artists. The magazines also included reproductions of contemporary European art the young Jackson probably saw as he watched the older boys read about the Paris School, which was the rage. His life-long interest – some biographers say his obsession – with Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) could have begun with seeing these magazines sent home by Charles.

In 1922, James Joyce’s Ulysses was published in Paris. Copies sent to the U. S. were destroyed by the U. S. post office. In 1923, the Dada movement ended. Picasso showed in Neoclassicism, Surrealism, and Expressionism. The New York Prohibition Enforcement Act was repealed. The tri-state conclave of the K. K. K. was held in Kokomo, Indiana, and was noted in a mural by Benton.