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

75ʺH Styles Art Deco Industrial Minimalism

she bought a ranch on Jacksboro Highway north of Fort Worth (a previously notorious strip of Highway 199) and opened a private art gallery where she focused on her art and her passion for communicating her love of painting to others

and continuing through the mid 70s

and Luigi Colani

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