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'''Eric Schilsky''', [[Royal Academician|RA]] (born '''Eric Clare Telford Schilsky'''; October 1898 in [[Southampton]], [[Hampshire]], England; died 29 March 1974, [[Edinburgh]]) was a [[sculpture|sculptor]].<ref name=ra>{{cite web|url=http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Names%25A0A-Z&person=5881|title=Royal Academy of Arts Collections - Person|website=www.racollection.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O108482/sculpture-schilsky-eric/|title=Sculpture - Schilsky, Eric - V&A Search the Collections|website=collections.vam.ac.uk}}</ref>
Schooled in Geneva, and at the [[École des Beaux-Arts]] in Paris, he studied sculpture under Havard Thomas, at [[Slade School of Fine Art|The Slade]] (1914–19) (interrupted by [[WW I]] service).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ericschilsky.co.uk/?page_id=295|title=Biography @ Eric Schilsky|website=ericschilsky.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artbiogs.co.uk/1/artists/schilsky-eric|title=SCHILSKY Eric 1898-1974 - Artist Biographies|website=www.artbiogs.co.uk}}</ref>
He was married to the painter [[Victorine Foot]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1217515473|title=Eric Clare Telford Schilsky RA, RSA - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951|website=sculpture.gla.ac.uk}}</ref>
==Résumé== *Sculptor and lecturer, [[Westminster School of Art]] (1930s-1950s) and subsequently the [[Edinburgh College of Art]] (1950s-1970s) *Elected [[Royal Academician|ARA]]: 25 April 1957 *Elected RA: 26 April 1968 *Elected Senior RA: 31 December 1973<ref name=ra/>
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==External links== *{{Official website|http://ericschilsky.co.uk/ }}
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