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Ronald Fisher Arnholm

also: Ron Arnholm

Hope's youngest brother, born after their father Charles Sr.'s death (Ronald was five when their father died in 1944). Left Vermont for Rhode Island School of Design (BFA), then Yale (MFA in graphic design). In the 1960s he joined the art faculty at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, and never left. He is a working American type designer with eponymous typefaces and a foundational graphic design educator. He is the only Arnholm sibling named as surviving in Hope's 2024 obituary.

Occupations

  • Professor of graphic design, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia (since the 1960s)
  • type designer (eponymous typefaces)

Events in this life

  1. 1939 · birth

    Place: Barre, Barre, Vermont, USA

Stories

The Arnholm typographer

1939 to present
Hope's youngest brother, Ronald Fisher Arnholm, was born in Barre on January 4, 1939. He was five when their father Charles Sr. died in 1944. He left Vermont for Rhode Island School of Design (BFA), then Yale (MFA in graphic design). In the 1960s he joined the art faculty at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, and never left. He is a working type designer with eponymous typefaces and a foundational American graphic design educator. He is the only Arnholm sibling named as surviving in Hope's 2024 obituary.
Source: Ron Arnholm faculty directory entry

Documents and artifacts

obituary
Hope A. Loso obituary
Current location: https://www.whitcombfuneralhome.com/obituaries/hope-loso
census
1940 US Census, Barre VT, Arnholm household
census
1950 US Census, Barre VT, Merena Arnholm household
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