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David P. Skeggs
David P. Skeggs
David P. Skeggs

David P. Skeggs

American
BiographyDavid Skeggs was born in Youngstown in 1924. In 1960s, he lived with his wife and three children in Bath, Ohio, where he was designing a line of stoneware planters and other home accessories which he hoped to produce and market during the winter of 1960 under the name of Skeggs Design Studio.
Education: Denison University with a BA in painting; State University of Iowa MA in Art History; Special study with Hans Hoffman.

Occupation: Head of Art Department at Youngstown University; Director of Sioux City Art Center for 3 years; Designer for Garth Andrews Company.

Awards: Purchase award at State Teachers College in Indiana, PA 1954; First Award Ohio Watercolor Society 1951; Mahoning County Fair; Terry Art Institute; Boston Independent Artists Purchase Award 1953; Ohio State Fair honorable mentions; Dayton Art Institute Ohio Printmakers Purchase Award 1952; Akron Art Institute Purchase Award 1953 and 1957; Creative Gallery; Des Moines Art Center Purchase Award 1955 and 1956; Joslyn Art Museum Purchase Award 1954; Iowa State Fair First Award 1955; Meltzer Galleries 3 purchase awards; Wayne State Teachers College Purchase Award 1955; Sioux City Art Center 1957.
Exhibits: Denison University; Kenyon College; Massillon Museum; Brooklyn Museum Print Annuals; Library of Congress Pennell Print Shows; Print Club in Philadelphia; Seattle Museum; National Serigraph Society; Newport Summer Shows; Toledo Museum of Art; Wadsworth Atheneum; San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum; Newark Museum of Art; Syracuse Museum of Art; Ohio State University; Bradley University; Art Institute of Chicago; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; J. B. Speed Art Museum; Rudel Gallery; Sheldon Swope Art Gallery; Scarab Club in Detroit; Cincinnati Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Fort Wayne Art Association; Cedar Rapids Gallery; Walker Art Center; Los Angeles Museum; Immaculate Hart College in Los Angeles; Little Gallery in Birmingham; University of Wisconsin; University of Minnesota; Pennsylvania State College; Cornell College; Yale University

Source:
From a Canton Art Institute catalog of September 1960

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