Kraft, Arthur Sounds of Fury Label

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St. Joseph Museums

The image depicts a blue-green card with elegant, black cursive lettering that reads "Sounds of Fury" in the center, followed by a signature reading "A Kraft" underneath, with the year "1971" inscribed at the bottom right corner. The background appears to be a wooden surface.

The image depicts a blue-green card with elegant, black cursive lettering that reads "Sounds of Fury" in the center, followed by a signature reading "A Kraft" underneath, with the year "1971" inscribed at the bottom right corner. The background appears to be a wooden surface.

Name/Title

Kraft, Arthur "Sounds of Fury" Label

Entry/Object ID

2012.13.11

Scope and Content

Kraft, Arthur "Sounds of Fury" Label. 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

Label

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, Commerce Bank Art Collection, Kansas City, Missouri, 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