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John Skelton BIOGRAPHY
1923 Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland - 2009 Dublin, Ireland. Known for: Figure, genre painting.
John Skelton was born in 1923 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He worked initially in advertising as Art Director and illustrator of books, most of them educational. From 1975 onwards he worked... Read full biography
John Skelton was born in 1923 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He worked initially in advertising as Art Director and illustrator of books, most of them educational. From 1975 onwards he worked full-time as a painter. Skelton had 25 one man shows in Dublin; two in Belfast, one in Los Angeles and... Read full biography
John Skelton was born in 1923 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He worked initially in advertising as Art Director and illustrator of books, most of them educational. From 1975 onwards he worked full-time as a painter. Skelton had 25 one man shows in Dublin; two in Belfast, one in Los Angeles and one in the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut. Up to the late 1980s, John was a frequent exhibitor in the annual Royal Hibernian Academy shows in Dublin. In recent years, however, his work was in... Read full biography
John Skelton was born in 1923 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He worked initially in advertising as Art Director and illustrator of books, most of them educational. From 1975 onwards he worked full-time as a painter. Skelton had 25 one man shows in Dublin; two in Belfast, one in Los Angeles and one in the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut. Up to the late 1980s, John was a frequent exhibitor in the annual Royal Hibernian Academy shows in Dublin. In recent years, however, his work was in such demand that he contributed to these less often. During the 1970s and earlier 1980s he earned a reputation as a gifted teacher and lecturer in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Many of John Skelton's figures can be read as elegiac,... Read full biography
John Skelton was born in 1923 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He worked initially in advertising as Art Director and illustrator of books, most of them educational. From 1975 onwards he worked full-time as a painter. Skelton had 25 one man shows in Dublin; two in Belfast, one in Los Angeles and one in the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut. Up to the late 1980s, John was a frequent exhibitor in the annual Royal Hibernian Academy shows in Dublin. In recent years, however, his work was in such demand that he contributed to these less often. During the 1970s and earlier 1980s he earned a reputation as a gifted teacher and lecturer in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Many of John Skelton's figures can be read as elegiac, all caught in a kind of monumental loneliness. Even in his scenes of rural social life there is at times a somber note. It is caught... Read full biography
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John Skelton was born in 1923 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He worked initially in advertising as Art Director and illustrator of books, most of them educational. From 1975 onwards he worked full-time as a painter. Skelton had 25 one man shows in Dublin; two in Belfast, one in Los Angeles and one in the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut. Up to the late 1980s, John was a frequent exhibitor in the annual Royal Hibernian Academy shows in Dublin. In recent years, however, his work was in such demand that he contributed to these less often. During the 1970s and earlier 1980s he earned a reputation as a gifted teacher and lecturer in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.
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