Symposium Welcome; Greta Berman, "The Williamsburg Housing Project Murals: Pioneering Abstraction"

Welcome and virtual tour of the exhibition "Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural": Jenny McComas, Curator of European and American Art, Eskenazi Museum of Art
"The Williamsburg Housing Project Murals: Pioneering Abstraction": Greta Berman, Professor of Art History, The Juilliard School, New York
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.