LEFT-HAND DIPTYCH PANEL BY WILLIS FRANKLIN WOODS (1950s) ART013 In a laudatory speech for

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

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

75ʺH Styles Art Deco Industrial Minimalism

smoked-glass

The first products were made here between 1946 and 1947

LEFT-HAND DIPTYCH PANEL BY WILLIS FRANKLIN WOODS (1950s) ART013 In a laudatory speech forThe 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