Word: craftsmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accessions are two small linden-wood legionaries of death, carved in the mid-sixteenth century. They reflect the preoccupation with death then prevalent and resemble the skeletal figures in Holbein's Dance of Death, done earlier in the same century. With deft control of the wood, the craftsman of the Busch-Reisinger pieces grimly records the grotesque expressions on the legionaries' faces and the torn flesh as it hangs limply from their skeletons...
Died. Truman Bailey, 57, designer and craftsman who was inspired by the rich variety of artifacts he uncovered in Peru to set up a shop to revive long-dormant native arts, developed such a thriving export business that the Peruvian government took it over; in Lima, Peru...