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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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“Originally celebrated for its connection to former owner Richard Simmons and the private sanctuary he created, the property is now being reintroduced as a compelling canvas for transformation,” Rosten explains.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

The day before the election, on a rainy afternoon filled with squalls and hail, dozens of Hamilton supporters turned out for a last-minute canvas in the university town of Lawrence, Kansas.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

The frame of "Young Woman at the Well" was slightly damaged, while "the canvas of 'Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano' had a tear," Bessone said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

“I said if there’s a screw lying on the ground, take it, if there’s a canvas tent, take it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Ignoring me, Sela sat next to Auntie, a curtain of dark hair glowing red around the edges briefly blocking her face as she set her canvas bag on the ground.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

He never shooed them away from his canvases, they say, and they grew up hearing him speak about art for hours during museum visits and at art fairs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

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

He stays inside, working in his asylum studio painting self-portraits and touching up older canvases.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman


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