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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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The Hay Wain sits on a 6ft-wide canvas and depicts a scene at Flatford with a horse and cart in the river and Willy Lott's Cottage on the bank.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

Beshir and Kelly have been evolving it during its L.A. run, recently adding a stronger painting component by giving guests their own canvas to work on throughout the evening.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Cole’s central image evokes the imperial grandeur of Rome before it is felled, in the next canvas, by fire, flood and barbarous invaders.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Having rented flats, Dave had always filled these with house plants - but after they bought their first home in 2016, the garden with a large lawn gave him a "blank canvas" to fill.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

I pulled out the field guide with its blue canvas cover and leafed through the pages.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

The intimacy of life and work are everywhere in the canvases, but Vermeer’s “sea of signs,” as Mr. Graham-Dixon calls it, resists reduction to narrative certainty.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

The artist’s long career swept in artworks made not only on cameras and canvases, but on such things as fax machines and photocopiers.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

Pollock gained international fame for holding his brush above his canvases to create swirling, dripping abstracts, and a 11-foot-wide version, “Number 7A, 1948,” was the largest example of his signature style in private hands.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

Whether that was playing on stage with the band, drawing, or painting huge canvases, he was never “sitting around, doing nothing.”

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

She had run out of canvases and had begun painting on plywood, so she picked up a piece of wood, got out her palette, squeezed some paints onto it, and selected a brush.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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