Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Rich planned it that way all along. He has enjoyed his 31 years on the Art Institute's staff, 13 as director, but he has a better job-which pays less. His new post: director of the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum, the little dream museum that in 1954 won the late Francis Henry Taylor away from his job as director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...uncompromising standards even at the cost of sharp criticism (e.g., the Manchester Guardian called his decision against Churchill "rather hoity-toity"), Rich has kept Chicago at the top of big league U.S. museums. He originated a score of important shows, most recently the exhibition of paintings by Pointillist Georges Seurat that was threatened by fire last month while on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (bringing Rich to New York within six hours). By encouraging his curators to build up the museum's print, decorative arts and Oriental collections, by starting a photography section...
...post, Indiana-born, University of Chicago-and Harvard-educated Dan Rich will have less than one-tenth the staff (33 v. 350) but three times as much leisure. Worcester's jewel-box museum, the best of its size in the country, with a choice selection of objects and paintings ranging from a 3,000 B.C. Sumerian stone figure to Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso, will give Rich professional pride and satisfaction, plus the chance to work more closely with the community. He will be free to do his own research and "some polemic writing," notably on the need...
...then tails off into the world of Germanic near mysticism. I'm Not Stiller is already a European bestseller and has been hailed as a masterpiece; perhaps it is more accurate to describe it as the first novel since World War II that has tried to exploit the rich, mixed inheritance handed down by Kafka, Koestler and Mann...