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
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
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The Good Old Days is a first try at calendar art by a Hollywood scene painter named Paul Detlefsen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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David Roberts, who was then considered the greatest painter of interiors, began life as a scene painter, as did Stanfield who was his contemporary and a very powerful sea painter.
From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Ward, Leslie