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...Exhibition. It is, however, not as players but as craftsmen that Anton Lang and his fellows have crossed the Atlantic. Ober-Ammergau has been reduced to poverty. In 1922, despite the decline in the value of the mark, the villagers would not increase their prices. They gave three days' board with admittance to the play for 90c. Americans came to their rescue, provided them with orders for woodcarving, etc., and have now arranged for them to exhibit and sell their art work in America...
...trade in the U. S. Few even of the élite know that Grand Rapids is also the center of the vanishing cognate art of woodcarving. In the Ryerson Public Library the Woodcarvers' Association of Grand Rapids holds an annual exhibition, filled with the zeal of the medieval craftsmen. There are only about 1,000 hand-carvers in America, all told, and 157 of them are in Grand Rapids, though at one time they numbered there 375. The artists to whom the hand furniture industry gives employment are chiefly the Dutch, German and French. They work in all mediums...
Woodstock, quaint village in Ulster County, N. Y., (heart of the Catskills) is the home of an arresting colony of painters, sculptors, craftsmen. They club together each summer for an exhibition by their own members, the fourth of which is now in progress...
...Egyptian influence, though gradually diminishing, remained dominant for hundreds of years. During the Meroitic kingdom,--the period when Meroe was the capital,--Professor Reisner finds that several times Egyptian influences on Ethiopian culture were reintroduced and the Egyptian arts and crafts were revived, possibly through the importation of Egyptian craftsmen. The Ethiopians, however, were not so entirely dependent on Egyptian civilization as this might seem to indicate, for they actually invented a script of their own, as few other nations have done...
...treasure already found includes a throne of state, the only one in existence, which proves by its exquisite workmanship that the craftsmen of that time were skilled as none have ever been since. The inlaid work on chairs, couches, coffers and even chariots was not crude or primitive but delicate and fine beyond belief...