Word: catton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bloomington Art Association invited top U.S. artists and galleries to send entries. Thirty-one bang-up paintings were submitted by such artists as Peter Hurd, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Fletcher Martin, John Steuart Curry, Aaron Boh-rod and Doris Lee. Bloomington's jury (headed by Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich) awarded a $100 prize to Raymond Breinin. Russian-born Artist Breinin's prize-winning picture was called The Night, depicted a somber, winged symbolic angel on horse back chasing the setting sun over the roofs and spires of an idyllic village...
Chicago's show owed its quality to a year of careful sifting and choosing by the Art Institute's dapper Director Daniel Catton Rich. Aware that artists are not always the best judges of their own work, Director Rich and a staff of assistants kept an eye on Manhattan exhibitions, spent months touring New England, the South and Southwest, to find exactly what they wanted. When Director Rich had finished, he had hand-picked 276 items of painting and sculpture by well-known and unknown U.S. artists...
...Disgruntled exhibitors have long panned the Chicago local show because teachers at the Institute's art school sat on the jury, gave the prizes to their pupils. This year Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich sent out ballots to 1,091 eligible artists and asked them to elect their own jury. The results seemed about the same. "Dull mediocrity," said Critic Clarence Joseph Bulliet of the Chicago Daily News. Top prize, the Logan Medal and $500, went to Lawrence Adams for his bright, thinly painted West Side in Winter...
...Others: The Chicago Art Institute's Daniel Catton Rich, the (Manhattan) Museum of Modern Art's Alfred H. Barr Jr., the San Francisco Museum's Grace McCann Morley, the Los Angeles Museum's Roland J. McKinney...