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The first episode investigated that illegible signature and the pigments possibly used on the canvas, including Prussian blue and ivory black.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
“A lot of people look at this as the last unpainted canvas in Los Angeles,” Perea said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Out of 93 total professional fights in his career - 73 victories, 18 losses, and two draws - Chuvalo was never once knocked down to the canvas.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
He watched the sail makers cutting heavy canvas into strips and sewing it back together again.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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Although his canvases typically sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, when he completed a large mural for the Palestinian Museum, his requested fee was only a fig tree to be planted in the garden.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Breakfast burritos in L.A. are canvases for individual creative expression, innovations that graft global cuisines or basic energy bombs to fuel the day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Early in 2024, taggers began turning Oceanwide Plaza’s skyscrapers into canvases for graffiti.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
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
Vincent gathers his brushes and his paints, his canvases and his easels, all the painting supplies he’d taken to Drenthe from The Hague, and he walks.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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