painter

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

A painter who early on shifted into conceptual provocation with his ‘Readymades’—including, infamously, a urinal—the French artist gets his first retrospective in the U.S. in more than 50 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Sedaris lives in New York with his husband, Hugh Hamrick, a painter and set designer.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Bought for $236.4 million, "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt became the second most expensive work ever sold at auction.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

The previous record for American painter Pollock was $61.2 million, set in 2021.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

How he wished that he had been a scientist, instead of a house painter in Stillwater, so that he might have joined some of the great Polar expeditions.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater