scene painter
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In his spare time, he served as a scene painter for local theaters.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2022
The Russian scene painter Vladimir Polunin, who helped paint the curtain, wrote that Picasso wore slippers so he could stand on the canvas as he worked.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2014
Kelly, who grew up in Bridgeport, Conn., began learning his art from his father, a theatrical scene painter.
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In Thaxted, Essex, a theatrical scene painter unveiled a gasoline-powered mechanical elephant that walked at 28 m.p.h., flapped its ears, carried eight passengers, a license plate and a taillight.
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No consecration can make one any more than installing a scene painter in the studio of a Raphael could ensure a reproduction of a Transfiguration, or the Madonna di Foligno.
From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by Sullivan, W. R. Washington