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
A year later he was a scene painter for the Chicago Opera, priming the enormous backdrops with a large brush dipped in glue.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was an art in which the delicate Miss Austen excelled, too; but Dickens's methods compared to hers are like those of a scene painter when compared to those of an etcher in colours.
From Confessions of a Book-Lover by Egan, Maurice Francis
