Eric Clare Telford Schilsky RA, RSA
Born October 1898
Died 29 March 1974
Active: 1946 - 1974
Country of birth: England
Country of death: Scotland
Sculptor, teacher
Born in Southampton, Hampshire. He studied at the Slade School of Art, London and then taught at Westminster School of Art and the Central School of Arts, London. During the Second World War he was one of a number of artists who worked at the Directorate of Camouflage in Leamington Spa. One of his co-workers was the painter, Victorine Foot who he later married. After the war they lived in Edinburgh, where Schilsky was head of sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art from 1946 to 1969. Schilsky was elected: ARSA (1952), RSA (1956), ARA (1957), and RA (1968).
This record includes information submitted by Nick Shelley.
Locations
Address 68 Grange Loan Edinburgh | View on map
1946 (Circa)
Address 16A Meadow Place Edinburgh | View on map
1948 (Circa) - 1974 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1946 - 1975
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 27 times between 1946 and 1975. On average 2 works exhibited per show
Institutional and Business Connections
Adjudicated on a panel at The Edinburgh College of Art
1946 - 1951
For the award of Diplomas in ther Sculpture Dept.
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
25 April 1957 - 26 April 1968
Elected RA in 1968.
Elected ARSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1952
p. xxxi
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
26 April 1968 - 31 December 1973
Then became Senior RA until his death in 1974.
Elected RSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1956
p. xxxi
Professor of sculpture at The Edinburgh College of Art
1946 - 1969
Head of School
Teacher of modeling at Central School of Arts and Crafts
September 1940 - June 1941 (Presumed)
Listed as a teacher of day and evening classes in modelling in the School of Drawing, Modelling and Allied Subjects.
Note that there are no avaliable prospectuses from 1941-1942 and 1942-1943. Schilsky is not listed in the 1943-1944 prospectus.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by Benno Schotz
1948
ARSA
Nominated by Robert Buhler
21 April 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominated by Siegfried Joseph Charoux
21 April 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominated by Gilbert Ledward
21 April 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominated by Maurice Lambert
21 April 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominated by Charles Thomas Wheeler
21 April 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominated by James Arthur Woodford
21 April 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominated by Arnold Mason
26 April 1951
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominated by Cosmo Clark
13 April 1953
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Taught Ann Henderson
1945 (Circa)
Sources
London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus and Time-Table of the Session, 1940-1941
September 1940 (Presumed)
Unpaged timetable.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, c.1939-c.1961
1961 (Circa)
p.222.
The Royal Scottish Academy Nomination Forms for Associateship Rank. 1942-1952
Who was Who
December 2007
‘SCHILSKY, Eric’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U159357, accessed 31 March 2013]
Citing this record
'Eric Clare Telford Schilsky RA, RSA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1217515473, accessed 09 Jun 2023]
