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Daniel Catton Rich on Seurat

What a season this is for our own Art Institute! First, the monumental Picasso show, and now what promises to be an epoch-making exhibition of Seurat! In various stages of planning and talking for over twenty years, ever since the publication in 1935 of Daniel Catton Rich's book, Seurat and the Evolution of La Grande Jatte, this definitive show of Seurat now opens here on January 16. It is the largest exhibition of Seurat's work since one held in a private gallery in Paris fifty years ago and the first big exhibition ever held in any museum. Although this is being done in cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art, the idea of the show was our own Dan Rich's (it opens in New York March 26, incidentally). Mr. Rich spent months tracking down the 150 paintings and drawings that will be shown here. Many of them have never even been photographed before, much less exhibited. At the next meeting of the Society, January 22, Dan Rich will address us on THE SEARCH FOR SEURAT. We will be taken behind the scenes of museums and private homes; we will become privy to the kind of detective work necessary to find the object; then another kind of machination necessary to pry them loose from their owners after they've been found. Ten paintings came from the Louvre, several from the Tate, and many from private owners. Our own Grande Jatte will be hung in one room surrounded by thirty studies for it. It will be another great evening in Society history.