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MIRIAM KELLOGG FREDENTHAL & TZAIMS LUKSUS

 ALL INFORMATION FOUND AT THE BENNINGTON MUSEUM WEB SITE IS FALSE OR UNTRUE CONCERNING TZAIMS LUKSUS AND MIRIAM FREDENTHAL. THIS IS THE CORRECT STORY. In 1956 James Henry Luksus, fresh out of the US Navy after four years active duty matriculates first at the University of Pennsylvani in architecture, togetherbwith the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, painting and drawing, and then at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art majoring in Archectural Interior Design.  The program in Interior Design included city planning, urban renewal, structural engineering, architectural restoration, textile weaving and silk sceen printing of fabric. Miriam Kellogg Fredenthal held a teaching position in textile design technology atbthe PMSA from the Philsdelphia Textile Institute.  Earlier she attended Cranbrook Academy of Art having won a sculpture scholarship at the Boston Museum School to study under Carl Millis, however, Millis left for Sweden on a family crisis and the mother of Erro Saarinin.
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HIstory of the Yusupov-Luksiev Family

 From:  "Striking With the Sword of Heaven."  DMITRI IVANOVITCH YUSUPOV-LUKSIEV a/k/a TZAIMS LUKSUS, FRSA PART I Chapter 1 The story begins in the land now known as Russia but the individuals concerned are Viking in the 9th century AD and principally with Luki (Loki) the youngest brother of Rurik (Ulrich) Grand Dukes of Novgorod and Kiev that created Russia having been given the name Russe by the native Scythian chieftains due to the colour of the hair of the Vikings, however, their hair was more light brown or blond and not red. Fighting amongst themselves, often over the ownership of land. goats, sheep or oxen, the chiefs often called upon the newly arrived, tall peaceful visitors, to be judge and jury and settle any matter.  As a result Ulrich and his Viking crew and brothers became leaders in the land and with Ulrick head of the group was called the Grand Duke Rurik. Significantly ignored, his younger brother Loki (pronounced Luki), decided to leave since his older brothe
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