On this date in 1886, an exhibition by the Society of Independent Artists in Paris included Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," a ten-foot wide painting that has become one of the most famous in the world. Seurat and Paul Signac developed the pointillist style, using small dots of color that the eye interprets as a single image. It took two years for Seurat to complete the painting, which was the subject of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sunday in the Park with George. The painting is part of the permanent collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.