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

75ʺH Styles Art Deco Industrial Minimalism

and Luigi Colani

he opened a studio on the famous Bӧttcherstraße

In 1951 Gerharz went to work at RUSCHA KERAMIK as operations manager and lead ceramist

CERAMANO employed many of the top ceramic artists of the day

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