Chicago has long hern interested in the decorative arts as ivell as in painting and sculpture. A Chicagoan who has been a stimulating force in the art world, DANIEL CATTON RICH, critic and author, has hern Director of the Art Institute of Chicago and its Curator of Painting since 1938. Ihis is the sixth of the Atlantics series on Painting and Sculpture to which connoisseurs, curators, and artists are contributing.
Art critic and writer, DANIEL CATTON RICH has been Director of the Art Institute of Chicago and Curator of Painting since 1938. For the 58th Annual Exhibition, the Institute arranged a series of exhibits on dominant themes in American Art. The showing which opened last November was made up of 256 paintings and sculptures by American abstract and surrealist artists,and in collecting them Mr. Rich and his staff were impressed by the vitality and scope of this new movement.