Swing Landscape

Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural

Jennifer McComas, Jody Patterson

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Yale University Press
08 September 2020

Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

An insightful study of the progressive politics animating a great work of modernist mural painting

In 1936 the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project commissioned Stuart Davis (1892–1964) to paint a mural for the Williamsburg Houses, a New York City housing project. Though the mural, Swing Landscape, was never installed in its intended location, it survives as an impressive testament to Davis’s energetic, colorful brand of abstraction and the progressive politics that animated it. This study explores the painting, one of the greatest of twentieth-century America and arguably Davis’s most ambitious work.

This book challenges the prevailing tendency to separate Davis’s leftist activism from his art and contextualizes Swing Landscape within 1930s abstract mural painting in New York, emphasizing the politics of abstraction. The book also offers the first comprehensive look at the Williamsburg mural commission, including works by Willem de Kooning, Ilya Bolotowsky, and others. The result is an indispensable resource on interwar modernism, mural painting, and urban development.

Published in association with the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Exhibition Schedule:

Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

(February 5–May 22, 2022)

By: Jennifer McComas
Contributions by: Jody Patterson
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 241mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780300250671
ISBN 10: 0300250673
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 08 September 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jennifer McComas is curator of European and American art at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University. Jody Patterson is associate professor and Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Chair of Art History at Ohio State University.