Word: catton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critics and philosophers, like Theologian Paul Tillich, as a cult of meaninglessness, proof of "the emptiness of our existence in industrial society." Other critics have an entirely different perspective, see in the abstract-expressionist breakthrough the opening of a brave, new, unfettered world of art. Worcester Museum Director Daniel Catton Rich finds the movement producing "the most fruitful work being done in this decade ... a new, vital kind of American abstraction, pictures which in sweep, size and dynamics display typically American qualities. Beside them many European contemporaries seem weak and uninventive...
...BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (169 pp.) -Frank A. Haskell-Edited by Bruce Catton-Houghton Mifflin...
...buff's bonanza, and quoted by virtually all scholars of the battle for its vivid closeups of the thick of things, it now comes for the first time to the popular Civil War book market. The original gets tasteful, unobtrusive editing by Bruce (A Stillness at Appomattox) Catton. For all Haskell's unusual talent, The Battle of Gettysburg was his only literary work. Just eleven months after he wrote his story of the most famous charge in U.S. history, Frank Haskell, by then a colonel, was among the 40,000 men whom Ulysses S. Grant flung headlong against...
...means, ruled the trustees, the Art Institute of Chicago should accept the traveling show of Amateur Winston Churchill's paintings (TIME, Feb. 10). No, growled Director Daniel Catton Rich, 54, "we do not show the work of amateurs unless they have been passed by professional juries." Rich won the debate; the Churchill exhibit (which last month drew a record 147,255 spectators at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art) was turned down. Having dealt decisively with the threat of being overruled, Dan Rich last week coolly resigned...
Flight from Chicago. Concern for the art came second, but it was more widespread. In Chicago, Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich, who rounded up the Seurat show, including Chicago's most valuable painting, Seurat's La Grande Jatte, appraised at more than $1,000,000, got news of the fire by telephone 50 minutes after it started. Another 50 minutes later Rich was on a plane to New York, and four hours later he was standing before La Grande Jatte in the adjacent Whitney Museum. With an audible sigh of relief, he announced...