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  2. Patricia Billings - Wikipedia

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    Billings worked as a tuberculosis researcher at Kansas City Hospital. [4] In 1956 she began studying art at Amarillo College. [5] [6] She made plaster of Paris sculptures, [5] and in 1964 she opened a store in Kansas City where she sold many of her sculptures. [6] She sculpted a swan and after she finished, it collapsed and broke into pieces ...

  3. Plaster - Wikipedia

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    Plaster expands while hardening then contracts slightly just before hardening completely. This makes plaster excellent for use in molds, and it is often used as an artistic material for casting. Plaster is also commonly spread over an armature (form), made of wire mesh, cloth, or other materials; a process for adding raised details.

  4. List of The Thinker sculptures - Wikipedia

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    This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) The Thinker in front of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker, originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, exists in several versions. The original size and the later monumental size versions were both created by Rodin, and the most valuable ...

  5. Chalkware - Wikipedia

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    Max (born 1880 - died 1958 [22]) and Herbert Hermann Louis Lohnberg - 2, Ronalds Road, Holloway Road, London N5 Lorenzo and Leo Menesini - 21 Pickering Street, London N1 Diomede and Nicolao Nieri trading as D. N. Art Products - 26 and 28 Trafford Street, Hulme, Manchester 15, Lancashire

  6. Walker Hancock - Wikipedia

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    Walker Kirtland Hancock (June 28, 1901 – December 30, 1998) was an American sculptor and teacher. He created notable monumental sculptures, including the Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial (1950–52) at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, and the World War I Soldiers' Memorial (1936–38) in St. Louis, Missouri.

  7. Plasterwork - Wikipedia

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    Plaster for hair slabs made with manila hemp fiber broke at 195 lb (88 kg), plaster mixed with sisal hemp at 150 lb (68 kg), jute at 145 lb (66 kg), and goats' hair at 144 lb (65 kg). [ citation needed ] Another test was made in the following manner.

  8. With a win over the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans on Feb. 9, the Chiefs will become the first NFL team to achieve a threepeat since the 1967 Packers, whose run commenced before the first ...

  9. Karl Bitter - Wikipedia

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    After working as a sculptor at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and as director at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York in 1901, Bitter's extraordinary organizational skills led him to be named head of the sculpture programs at both the 1904 St. Louis Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, where Lee Lawrie trained ...