It is estimated that every adult alive in the United States today has handled objects designed by Viktor Schreckengost or one of his students.
This is The Cleveland Museum of Art's exclusive, first full-scale overview of Viktor Schreckengost's career, spanning more than 85 years, as an artist and pioneer industrial designer. Curator Henry Adams has chosen more than 150 works for this exhibition.
Viktor Schreckengost was skilled in working with all types of materials. Come see and enjoy figures, animals, and abstract subjects in a variety of materials from clay and plaster casts to carved vessel forms and hand-painted ceramics. Explore Schreckengost's career in industrial design through drawings, photographs, and objects such as dinnerware, bicycles, and pedal cars. Visitors will be surprised and delighted by the number of objects familiar to those growing up in the second half of the twentieth century.
Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design is organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibition is made possible by Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP and the John P. Murphy Foundation, with additional support from the Richard Florsheim Art Fund, Northern Trust Company, Nottingham-Spirk Design Associates, Betty and Joe Oros, Mr. And Mrs. Viktor Schreckengost, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Promotional support for the exhibition is provided by Avenues Magazine and Majic Oldies 105.7.