Delta Phi Delta
| Delta Phi Delta National Honor Art Fraternity | |
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| ΔΦΔ | |
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| Founded | January 10, 1909 as the Palette Club University of Kansas |
| Type | Honor Society |
| Emphasis | Art |
| Mission statement | To promote art in the United States, to encourage high scholarship, and to recognize superior accomplishment in the fine arts and related arts. |
| Publication | Palette |
| Chapters | 38 |
| Members | 13,450 collegiate |
| Headquarters | 1106 Cody Hays, Kansas 67601 USA |
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Delta Phi Delta (ΔΦΔ) is a national honorary art fraternity. Organized as the Palette Club on January 10, 1909 at the University of Kansas, it was renamed Delta Phi Delta on 28 May, 1912. The society is open to men and women. Its official magazine, the Palette, started publication in 1911.[1]
The Fraternity counts Foster Gribble as its founder.[2]
The society's key features the Greek letters Delta Phi Delta across an art pallet.[3]
Laureate members
Delta Phi Delta has honored the following well known artists with Laureate memberships. [2]
- Foster Gribble
- Ruth Raymond
- Birger Sandzen
- Edwin O. Christensen
- Francis D. Whittemore
- William Griffith
- Lorado Taft
- Levon West
- Oscar B. Jacobson
- Jon Jonson
- Grant Wood
- Boardman Robinson
- Raymond Johnson
- Wayman Adams
- Dwight Kirsch
- John Rood
- Abraham Rattner
- Bruce Haswell
- Muriel Sibell Wolle
- Eugene Francis Savage
- Buckminster Fuller
- Bruce Goff
References
- ^ a b "Delta Phi Delta Records, 1922-1954 | Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections".
- ^ a b Anson, Jack L.; Marchenasi, Robert F., eds. (1991) [1879]. Baird's Manual of American Fraternities (20th ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Baird's Manual Foundation, Inc. p. VI-1185. ISBN 978-0963715906.
- ^ "DELTA PHI DELTA - Fraternity ART 10k Gold KEY CHARM - Wilson Brothers Jewelry". wilsonbrosjewelry.com. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
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