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.