Word: encausticists
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...Angeles boasted that its museum would have "the largest assemblage of wax likenesses of celebrities ever assembled." This was an exuberant exaggeration. More remarkable was the fact that all the figures, half a hundred of them, are the work of a single encausticist, industrious, 23-year-old Katherine Stuberg, of Los Angeles. Encausticist Stuberg comes by her talent naturally. For three generations her family has modeled the hairless heads of statesmen, patriots, murderers and heroes in clay, cast them in wax, fitted them with wigs, glass eyes and mustaches, painstakingly tinted them to the life. Reporters visiting Miss Stuberg...
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