After three years the family moved back to Sweden and returned to the United States, Philadelphia, at the beginning of World War II.
Having served in the U.S. Army from 1953 till 1955, Skoogfords began his studies at The School for American Craftsmen in Rochester, New York.
This imagery manifested in texture and surface related to landscapes or sensuous forms of the human body.
His intent was to create jewelry incorporating a meaningful statement about form, texture, color, and image.
[5] He was also strongly influenced by another master craftsman at Rochester, Danish trained Jack Prip, with whom he remained lifelong friends.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art houses ten pieces of his work in their collections, including pins, pendants, necklaces, a chalice and a teapot.