Waylande gregory biography

American sculptor

Waylande Desantis Gregory ( Baxter Springs, Kansas – , New Jersey) was one of the most innovative and prolific American art-decoceramics sculptors of the early 20th century.

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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]

Early life

Waylande Gregory was born in Baxter Springs, Kansas in His mother was a concert pianist, and his father was a farmer.

From an early age he showed precocious artistic talent, beginning with small sculptures of animals in earth, as well as prodigious musical talent, even composing his own pieces. He at one time declared that he would no longer play pieces by Bach, but only original pieces he had written himself.^{[citation needed]}