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The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) is a labor union in the United States and Canada which represents bricklayers, restoration specialists, pointers/cleaners/caulkers, stonemasons, marble masons, cement masons, plasterers, tile setters, terrazzo mechanics, and tile, marble and terrazzo finishers.
A scenery shop or scene shop is a specialized workshop found in many medium or large theaters, as well as many educational theatre settings. [1] The primary function of a scene shop is to fabricate and assemble the flats , platforms , scenery wagons , and other scenic (set) pieces required for a performance.
In 1951, Hoosier Hysteria erupted in the tiny community of Roll, as the Roll Red-Rollers won the Hartford City sectional in the Indiana High School basketball tournament. [28] By the 1960s, Roll was still a small community with a barbershop and general store, a gas station or two, a church or two, and an empty school building.
A bird trap is seen to the left among other farm implements and the whole scene is overshadowed by a church to the left. Winter Landscape with Skaters is considered one of Avercamp's earliest works, and is painted in a style strongly reminiscent of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1565 painting Winter Landscape with Ice skaters and Bird trap. Some ...
A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle is an oil-on-oak painting undertaken between 1608 and 1609 by the Dutch artist Hendrick Avercamp. [ 1 ] As with a number of Avercamp's works, the picture is part of the Flemish tradition of painting "the harmony of human activity and the cycle of nature". [ 2 ]
It shows a scene of the artist's impression of a train crossing the Hoosic River, with figures in the village of Hoosick Falls, New York watching in a peaceful winter landscape. This painting was one of forty selected for her to tell her story in her own words in the book Grandma Moses American Primitive : "The Hill lands of the Hoosick River ...
Józef Chełmoński: Partridges in the snow, 1891 Richard von Drasche-Wartinberg: In Deep Winter. The depiction of winter landscapes in Western art begins in the 15th century, as does landscape painting in general. Wintry and snowy landscapes are very rarely seen in earlier European painting since most of the subjects were religious.
The Irish Setter (Irish: sotar rua, [1] literally "red setter") is a setter, a breed of gundog, and family dog originating in Ireland. The term Irish Setter is commonly used to encompass the show-bred dog recognised by the American Kennel Club as well as the field-bred Red Setter recognised by the Field Dog Stud Book .