"The book "Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural" accompanies an exhibition of the same title, the first to explore the mural's aesthetics and history in depth. The exhibition and catalogue exemplify the type of serious research, inspired by the museum's collection, that should be undertaken by a teaching museum located within a major research university such as Indiana University. The project advances scholarship on Swing Landscape,...

"A mural renaissance swept the United States in the 1930s, propelled by the New Deal Federal Art Project and the popularity of Mexican muralism. Perhaps nowhere more than in New York City, murals became a crucial site for the development of abstract painting Artists such as Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and Lee Krasner created ambitious works for the Williamsburg Housing Project, Floyd Bennett Field Airport, and the 1939 World's...