Word: catton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Daily News's Critic C. J. Bulliet led the sneering section with the remark that "these ' 'isms,' grown stale and sterile in the lands of their origins, are further enfeebled crossing the Atlantic." Whatever the critics might say, Director Daniel Catton Rich was convinced that he was showing not the dead hand of the past but the shining face of the future. Only ten years ago, documentary "American School" painting of barnyards, brick cityscapes and beautiful vacation views had been the style. Now, Institute scouts, back from a 24,000-mile trip around...
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...hush up a bunch of lady art connoisseurs and make them go whispering on tiptoes about a gallery." O'Keeffe's huge flowers include jack-in-the-pulpits, hollyhocks, larkspur, the 3-by-2½-ft. Black Iris, which the Institute's Art Director Daniel Catton Rich described as an example of the Artist's means of "conveying her own distinguished emotions...
...streamlined deminudes of U.S. Magazine Artist George Petty. After Esquire's Petty, students coolly chose (in order of preference): Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, George Innes, Claude Monet, Doris Lee, Winslow Homer' Jules Breton, Caravaggio, Renoir, Manet,' John Singer Sargent, Vincent van Gogh. Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich blanched not a whit. Said he: "It was perfectly natural. The students like pretty girls and they like slick technique. I look at Petty myself whenever I get the chance...
Last week the Logan prize went to a piece of sculpture, Kneeling Women by Abbott Lawrence Pattison, now in the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School in Chicago. There was not a peep from Mrs. Logan. Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich, who puts on the yearly show of Chicago's artists, breathed a sigh of relief...