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In this newspaper clipping titled "Friends of the family" dated September 1989, a group of men is carefully installing a statue called "The Family" by artist Arthur Kraft in front of the Executive Plaza Office Building at 720 Main St. The image shows three individuals using a manual crane to position the artwork, which is part of the Commerce Bank Art Collection, on a pedestal. The men, identified as Gene Hancock, Roy Smith, and Blaine R. Englund, are focused and working collaboratively to ensure the sculpture is securely placed. This installation marks the statue's relocation from the Commerce Trust Building at 922 Walnut St. The backdrop features a structured metal framework and a building with glass windows, adding depth to the scene.

In this newspaper clipping titled "Friends of the family" dated September 1989, a group of men is carefully installing a statue called "The Family" by artist Arthur Kraft in front of the Executive Plaza Office Building at 720 Main St. The image shows three individuals using a manual crane to position the artwork, which is part of the Commerce Bank Art Collection, on a pedestal. The men, identified as Gene Hancock, Roy Smith, and Blaine R. Englund, are focused and working collaboratively to ensure the sculpture is securely placed. This installation marks the statue's relocation from the Commerce Trust Building at 922 Walnut St. The backdrop features a structured metal framework and a building with glass windows, adding depth to the scene.

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Kraft, Arthur Statue "The Family"

Entry/Object ID

2012.13.9

Scope and Content

Kraft, Arthur Statue "The Family" article in the Kansas City Star, September, 1989 titled "Friends of the Family" regarding the setting of the statue "The Family" in front of the Executive Plaza Office Building in Kansas City, Missouri. Statue was designed by Arthur Kraft and is part of the Commerce Bank Art Collection. The artwork was being moved from its prior home in the Commerce Trust Building at 922 Walnut St. in Kansas City, Missouri. 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.

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Kansas City Art Institute, Commerce Bank Art Collection, Kansas City, Missouri, St. Joseph State Hospital No. 2, Glore Psychiatric Museum

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News Clipping

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Good

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Date

Jun 26, 2012

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