LEFT-HAND DIPTYCH PANEL BY WILLIS FRANKLIN WOODS (1950s) ART013 75ʺH Styles Art Deco Industrial

75ʺH Styles Art Deco Industrial Minimalism

In a laudatory speech for the artist's 85th birthday

His hedgehog ashtrays were reproduced by many forgers in various countries and with varying degrees of precision

CERAMANO employed many of the top ceramic artists of the day

smoked-glass

LEFT-HAND DIPTYCH PANEL BY WILLIS FRANKLIN WOODS (1950s) ART013 75ʺH Styles Art Deco IndustrialThe tall left hand panel of a diptych that was originally titled, in its entirety, Movement, the sophomore work of WILLIS FRANKLIN WOODS (1920 1988), a Washington, D. C., artist and an accomplished museum administrator. A colorful yet sober montage of cubist abstractions, with overtones of Midwest Futurism, the acrylic is a casual jumble of forms. However, its seeming artlessness belies an acuity of execution, with sgraffito and sponging adding