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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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 twentieth 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 was also an early seminal figure in the studio glass movement.Waylande Gregory is one of the most influential ceramic sculptors of the 20th century, who had helped to shape the Art Deco period in America. Artistically, he had developed much of the art-deco sculptural visual vocabulary in American art. In one of his more notable pieces, Salome, the horror of the decapitated St. John the Baptist is secondary to the lyricism of the near linear rhythm of Salome’s dance of the seven veils, expressive of pure form and motion. He combines both the erotic dance of the seven veils simultaneously with the decapitated head of St. John on a silver platter.