After a year of study he won the grand prize at the Italian Royal Institute for Fine Arts for his sculpture "The Puritan.

The Randidge Monument features a seated figure of Grief leaning on an inverted torch resting on a sizable plinth by architect Carl Fehmer and Samuel Page.

[3] Kraus' work also graced the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the Massachusetts State House in the form of a marble bust of Oliver Ames.

[2] He was hospitalized in Danvers, Massachusetts, after showing signs of mental illness while attempting to create a sculpture of Belshazzar at the moment of seeing the handwriting on the wall.

[4] At his death, he left behind a wife and six children at his house at 90 Hyde Park Avenue in Clarendon Hills.