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https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/164011

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/172394

John Wilson, The Incident, 1952. Opaque and transparent watercolor, ink, and graphite. In 1952, while a student at La Esmeralda—Mexico’s national school of art—American artist John Wilson (1922–2015) painted a powerful mural that he titled The Incident. The fresco depicted a scene of a racial-terror lynching at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, as witnessed by a young African American family. Although the mural is no longer extant, this exhibition brings together publicly for the first time nearly all of Wilson’s known preparatory sketches and painted studies for it, as well as related prints and drawings. Inspired by the political and social activism of the Mexican muralists, in particular José Clemente Orozco, and haunted by images of lynchings that he had seen in newspapers as a child, Wilson revisited the subject of The Incident over many years as a way of grappling with racial violence, both past and present. The works on view, some disturbing in content, encourage contemporary viewers to do the same. On display at Yale University Art Gallery January 17, 2020– May 10, 2020 #SupportBlackArt #JohnWilson #BlackArtHistory https://www.instagram.com/p/B8KQpYzhM1f/?igshid=1850dauh5hs4g

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/218358

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/154918

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/164011

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/164010

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/159577