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Excerpt from 8 From Connecticut: Bernard Chaet, Cleve Gray, John Gregoropoulos, Joseph P. Gualtieri, Thomas Ingle, Irving Katzenstein, Howard Rackliffe, Anthony Terenzio; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Loan Exhibition, April 22 to May 29, 1960 IT has been contended pro and con that art presupposes an audience. Who then is that audience? It changes from one day to the next, from one year to the next, and from one century to the next, and consequently it may be said, except for being of his own time, an artist produces to satisfy his own creative impulses. While a sympathetic environment is reassuring, it is he alone who can best judge whether the results he achieves measure up to the precepts and the aesthetic standards he has set for himself. However, because an artist, by exhibiting his work, shares it with others, it is necessary that he establish communication with the beholder. If his mode of expression is unfamiliar, the latter must seek to understand his message, for only then can critical aesthetic judgment be reached. The artists in the present exhibition all speak different languages or to put it visually they use different modes of expression. Each is personal to them and strongly felt, but one of the things they have in common is that they live and paint in Connecticut. In the past ten years, the Wadsworth Atheneum has presented the work of some of the many distinguished artists, now living within our borders. It is our belief that it is not possible to form an Opinion of an artist's work by merely seeing one or two pictures such as is usually the case in large group shows. We have, therefore, arranged a series of two man exhibitions held generally during the summer, as well as group shows such as the present one, in order to give the public a better idea of the work of some of the outstanding artists of the state. In our opinion, this is one of the responsibilities of a regional museum close to large metropolitan centers, along with the showing o