Victor Skellern ARCA

Works

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Stained Glass Window
1936 (Presumed)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Society of Staffordshire Artists. Second Annual Exhibition (The Museum, Pall Mall, Hanley), 1935
27 November 1935 - 7 December 1935
Exhibited two bowls, p. 7 (118, 128) and four pots, p. 7 (135-38).

Institutional and Business Connections

Employee of Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.)
1923 - 1959 (Circa)
See 'Wedgwood Review', vol. 1, no. 6, March 1959, p. 2, in the Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive. Skellern is described as having been employed at Wedgwood since 1923 and becoming Art Director in 1934. See also in this archive photographs of his designs: for example 'Wildflower Pattern - Tea Ware Display', 1945 [refernce no. C&TD109], and a photograph of the artist in the studio c. 1940-1949 [no. HWPAB1/5]. Designed many patterns for tea wares.

Personal and Professional Connections

Related to V.G. Skellern
Could be the same person??

Sources

A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 49.

Society of Staffordshire Artists. Second Annual Exhibition, 1935
7 November 1935
p. 7.

Society of Staffordshire Artists. Third Annual Exhibition, 1936
2 December 1936
p. 7.

The Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive
See 'Wedgwood Review', vol. 1, no. 6, March 1959, p. 2, in the Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive. See also in this archive further articles and photographs of his designs: for example 'Wildflower Pattern - Tea Ware Display', 1945 [refernce no. C&TD109], and a photograph of the artist in the studio c. 1940-1949 [no. HWPAB1/5].