Jay Thurston Robinson
American, 1915-2018
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BiographyBorn in Detroit in 1915, a resident of Kentucky during his youth. B.A. from Yale University in 1937 and attended Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he studied under the guidance of Zoltan Sepeshy, Charles Eames, and Harry Bertoia. During World War II, Robinson worked in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C., as a U.S. Navy Training Aids Officer. He received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship to travel to Africa in 1950.