The (Un)Settled Podcast
The (Un)Settled Podcast Episode 6: Tom McGrath

In this final episode of the (Un)Settled Podcast, host Drew Baron visits the exhibition's final stop at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. There, he joins Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Erin Monroe, to reflect on the impact and outcomes of this distinctive collaborative survey of American art. Later, Baron visits contemporary landscape artists Tom McGrath at his studio in Brooklyn, New York to discuss his painting Untitled (Yellow Grid), the relevance of landscape painting in contemporary American art, and the lasting impact of the highway system on the American psyche. (Un)Settled: The Landcape in American Art is on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from June 12 to September 14, 2025: https://www.thewadsworth.org/explore/... The (Un)Settled Podcast is a multipart special presentation of the Binder Podcast dedicated to the traveling exhibition (Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art. Part of a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional exhibition partnership formed by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art as part of the Art Bridges Cohort Program.
- Broadcast on:
- 22 Apr 2025
In this final episode of the (Un)Settled Podcast, host Drew Baron visits the exhibition's final stop at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. There, he joins Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Erin Monroe, to reflect on the impact and outcomes of this distinctive collaborative survey of American art. Later, Baron visits contemporary landscape artists Tom McGrath at his studio in Brooklyn, New York to discuss his painting Untitled (Yellow Grid), the relevance of landscape painting in contemporary American art, and the lasting impact of the highway system on the American psyche. (Un)Settled: The Landcape in American Art is on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from June 12 to September 14, 2025: https://www.thewadsworth.org/explore/... The (Un)Settled Podcast is a multipart special presentation of the Binder Podcast dedicated to the traveling exhibition (Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art. Part of a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional exhibition partnership formed by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art as part of the Art Bridges Cohort Program.