In 1944 Clement Greenberg declared William Baziotes, along with Pollock, "among the six or seven best young painters we possess." In 1947, when one of his paintings was awarded the Rich-Campana Prize by the Art Institute of Chicago, Baziotes achieved the avant-garde glory of seeing his work attacked in Art Digest for its "bilious ... color," "sloppy craftsmanship" and "ignorant design." Despite such credentials, he was denied the canonization eventually accorded Pollock, Rothko, Newman ...