Date/Time
Jan 25, 2019 - Apr 6, 2019
All Day

Location
The Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts

In 1952, while studying mural painting in Mexico City, African American artist John Wilson (1922–2015) created a hauntingly powerful mural depicting a racial-terror lynching at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. The commanding fresco was painted on an exterior wall of a building at street level and featured twice-life-size figures, so the experience of encountering it would have been direct and visceral. While the mural is no longer extant, Reckoning with “The Incident”: John Wilson’s Studies for a Lynching Mural brings together nearly all of its known preparatory studies and related works, including oil paintings, lithographs, and drawings in chalk, crayon, graphite, and gouache.