Victor Schreckengost
- He Didn't Make The Celebrity Obituary List - But He Should Have!
by Fred Chenevey
fchenevey@whbc.com
Viktor Schreckengost didn't make the celebrity Obit list, but he should have.
In the world of art, ceramic art and design, he was a Super Star, and from little ole Sebring, Ohio.
Sebring was a pottery town around the turn of the century.
His pop gave him a lump of clay one day and told him to do something with it - did he ever.
He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in '29 and finished there 70 years later, teaching generations of young artists.
He may be best know for the piece commissioned by Eleanor Roosevelt - "The Jazz Bowl."
Check him out by "googling" him on the internet or look around this site at http://www.viktorschreckengost.org/ .
Be sure to go to the "About Victor" section.
He was called "America's Da Vinci."
He also designed the Very Coolest Little Peddle Cars, usually...that only the rich kids got.
