Word: alabastermen
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...English art has vanished more completely than that of the Nottingham alabastermen. Once, throughout Europe, their work was literally worshiped; today, London's man-in-the-street finds it less familiar than Congo carvings, Chinese jade, or Henry Moore's pinheaded women. Now a wealthy U.S. expatriate, Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, has set out to remind England of its alabastrine past...
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