Kraft, Arthur Invitation to Raach's Plaza Galeria Showing, c. 1950

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The image is of an art exhibition invitation and artist biography for Arthur Mayfield Kraft. On the right, a black-and-white photograph shows Kraft working on a mural, alongside a typed biography detailing his achievements, education at Yale, and exhibitions in Paris, New York, and other locations. The invitation, from Raach's Plaza Galeria in Kansas City, Missouri, invites attendees to an exclusive showing of Kraft's works on the seventeenth of November, with a reception at Putsch’s Sidewalk Cafe. The bottom left features an illustration of a person holding a wand with a leaping horseman, while the bottom right shows a stylized line drawing of a face.

The image is of an art exhibition invitation and artist biography for Arthur Mayfield Kraft. On the right, a black-and-white photograph shows Kraft working on a mural, alongside a typed biography detailing his achievements, education at Yale, and exhibitions in Paris, New York, and other locations. The invitation, from Raach's Plaza Galeria in Kansas City, Missouri, invites attendees to an exclusive showing of Kraft's works on the seventeenth of November, with a reception at Putsch’s Sidewalk Cafe. The bottom left features an illustration of a person holding a wand with a leaping horseman, while the bottom right shows a stylized line drawing of a face.

Name/Title

Kraft, Arthur Invitation to Raach's Plaza Galeria Showing, c. 1950

Entry/Object ID

AM2012.13.2

Scope and Content

Kraft, Arthur Invitation to Raach's Plaza Galeria showing of artworks by Arthur M. Kraft. Invitation includes bio on Mr. Kraft. Also printed is a photograph of Mr. Kraft at work and a couple of sketches by Mr. Kraft. Arthur Mayfield Kraft was a native of Kansas City, attended Southwest High School, the Kansas City Art Institute and Yale University. While at Yale, he won an Alice Kimball English Award in 1946 to study abroad. His paintings took first prize at both the Army Arts Exhibition in San Francisco in 1945 and at the Fifth Annual Audubon Artists Exhibition in New York in 1946. Mr. Kraft has four metal sculptures at the famous Northland Shopping Center in Detroit, Michigan. His works have appeared at the Salon of Jean Cocteau at the Palais Royale in Paris and in 1949 at a one-man show in New York at the Jacques Selegmann Gallery. In Kansas City, his murals are in the Muehlebach Hotel, Macy's, Pickwick Hotel, the Kansas City Public Library, Douglass School, and Security National Bank , to name a few. Arthur Kraft was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation for 1956 by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. His is composed of brilliant colors and fantasy figures and beautiful shapes. Arthur Kraft was a patient at the St. Joseph State Hospital #2 for a short period of time.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Invitation

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Request

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Artists, Art

Search Terms

St. Joseph State Hospital No. 2, Glore Psychiatric Museum, Kraft, Arthur Mayfield

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Jun 26, 2012

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Arthur Mayfield Kraft