Kraft, Arthur Notecard

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The image depicts a young girl standing in a field of flowers under a vast, clear sky. She is wearing a blue dress and appears to be engrossed in looking at a flower she's holding. The landscape is expansive, with the horizon dividing the field and the sky. The top left corner has the word "love" written in cursive, while the bottom right corner has a small letter "a." The scene is serene and captures a moment of solitary wonder in nature, giving a sense of innocence and tranquility to the viewer.

The image depicts a young girl standing in a field of flowers under a vast, clear sky. She is wearing a blue dress and appears to be engrossed in looking at a flower she's holding. The landscape is expansive, with the horizon dividing the field and the sky. The top left corner has the word "love" written in cursive, while the bottom right corner has a small letter "a." The scene is serene and captures a moment of solitary wonder in nature, giving a sense of innocence and tranquility to the viewer.

Name/Title

Kraft, Arthur Notecard

Entry/Object ID

AM2012.13.3

Scope and Content

Kraft, Arthur Notecard was sent to Mr. & Mrs. Leonard N. Jordan of Lee's Summit, Missouri. All that was written on the note was "Love" at top left corner and "a" at bottom right corner. Enclosed in a yellow envelope. 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 Primary Object Term

Notecard

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Writing Media

Nomenclature Class

Written Communication T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Art, Artists

Search Terms

Kansas City Art Institute, St. Joseph State Hospital No. 2, Glore Psychiatric Museum

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Jun 26, 2012

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Kraft, Arthur