Students' Choice

What kind of art do high-school students like? For three years, the Chicago Art Institute has been trying to find out, by means of a scholarly survey of some 3,733 high-school students. Its curiosity cost the Rockefeller General Education Board $24,300. Last week, having attempted to stimulate its 3,733 subjects in a wide variety of ways and having carefully tabulated their reactions, the Institute solemnly announced that--Chicago students like the 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."

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