Waylande Gregory

Waylande Gregory working on one of the six ceramic figures comprised in Light Dispelling Darkness (1937), a Federal Art Project sculpture at Roosevelt Park in Edison, New Jersey

Waylande Desantis Gregory (1905 Baxter Springs, Kansas – 1971, New Jersey) was one of the most innovative and prolific American art-deco ceramics sculptors of the early 20th century. His groundbreaking techniques enabled him to create monumental ceramic sculpture, such as the Fountain of the Atoms and Light Dispelling Darkness, which had hitherto not been possible. He also developed revolutionary glazing and processing methods, and was a seminal figure in the studio glass movement.[1]

  1. ^ Folk, Thomas, "Waylande Gregory," Ceramics Monthly Volume 42, Number 9 (November 1994), pp. 27–32.