YUAG Conversation: Building Dialogue around John Wilson’s The Incident

In 1952, while he was studying in Mexico, the African American painter John Wilson created a mural titled The Incident, which depicted a racial-terror lynching. While the mural itself no longer exists, the Yale University Art Gallery has gathered together for the first time nearly all of Wilson’s preparatory studies for his piece—including drawings, paintings, and prints—for an exhibition that will travel to several college and university art museums before returning to the Gallery in January 2020. Join us for a conversation as we consider ways to approach these works from historical, personal, and artistic perspectives.