canvas
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The canvas has been in myriad exhibitions of Freud’s works, with critic Martin Gayford writing that the portrait “outdoes Courbet’s ‘Bathers’ and similar performances from the past in sheer monumentality of physical presence.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
The DSA is highly organized on both a national and local level and, at least in New York City, can mobilize a small army of volunteers to canvas.
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2026
“You know it isn’t real, you know that ‘La Caverne du Pont-Neuf’ is not made of rock, that this is printed canvas.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2026
Kickboxing legend Verhoeven, in just his second professional boxing fight, troubled 39-year-old Usyk for long spells, but a late surge by the Ukrainian great sent the Dutchman to the canvas.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026
The tents we'd seen previously had been torn apart, and their ragged canvas flapped limply in the fetid breeze.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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