Born in 1922, Arthur Kraft is a listed Kansas City
painter and illustrator, educated at the Kansas City Art Institute and the
School of Fine Arts at Yale University.
He won the Audubon Artist Society national painting
award in 1946 and had a one man show of his work in New York in 1948. He
also exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Museum in New
York.
He created mosaic murals for the Kansas City Public
Library and a large statue for the Commerce Building. During a long battle
with cancer his last work was a mural for the waiting room of the Topeka,
Kansas Veteran's hospital. He died in 1977.
