Artist Signatures

John Skelton

John Skelton (1923 - 2009) was active/lived in United Kingdom, Ireland.  John Skelton is 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 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 in a child's sad face; a farmer's stooped back, a woman's wistful stare. The new Ireland of John S   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1218 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 524 auction lots for John Skelton (of which 414 auction records sold and 1 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 0 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by John Skelton as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists John Skelton in 0 of its research Essays. John Skelton has 134 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for John Skelton available:    Peter Collis,  John Francis Skelton,  Harry Aaron Kernoff,  Ivan Sutton,  Arthur Karel Maderson,  Elizabeth Brophy,  Mark O'Neill,  Patrick Leonard,  Elizabeth Cope,  Daniel O'Neill,  Majella O'Neill Collins,  Norman Teeling,  Markey Robinson,  Graham Knuttel,  Gerard Dillon,  John Kingerlee,  William Conor,  Matt Grogan,  Grace (Emily Grace) Mitchell Henry,  Kenneth Webb,  Brian Ballard,  Desmond Carrick,  Sean McSweeney,  Basil Ivan Rakoczi