"All that Jazz: Stuart Davis and the Modern Art of Swing," Jody Patterson, Ohio State University

"All that Jazz: Stuart Davis and the Modern Art of Swing": Jody Patterson, Associate Professor and Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Chair of Art History, Ohio State University
This virtual symposium was held on March 24, 2022 in conjunction with the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s exhibition Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural. The exhibition re-situates Davis’s 1938 mural _Swing Landscape_, originally painted for New York’s Williamsburg Housing Project, in its historical context. Speakers expanded upon the exhibition’s themes, examining pioneering abstract muralists of the 1930s, the role of women muralists in the mid-twentieth century, the significance of swing music within Stuart Davis’s oeuvre, and the challenges of interpreting a mural as visually and conceptually rich as Swing Landscape.