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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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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

The original studio canvas was painted in oil, but the curtain is painted in acrylic and water-based paint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Louis Vuitton, whose canvas bags powered decades of growth, launched the Capucines in 2013, a structured leather handbag named after Paris street where Louis Vuitton opened his first store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The early signs suggested Itauma had the measure of his opponent, with Hrgovic touching the canvas in the second round and conceding that he was "outboxed" early on.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

In his grimy Montmartre apartment, Picasso is doing something similar on canvas: he’s twisted space and time into something he calls cubism.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

While Herman was once known only for his massive canvases, today he has learned to appreciate the diminutive in his life and his work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 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

Breakfast burritos in L.A. are canvases for individual creative expression, innovations that graft global cuisines or basic energy bombs to fuel the day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The canvases we see behind him are blank, or turned away from the viewer, a testament to the uneasiness he felt presenting himself and his work to the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

There is an art show in Brussels, and a Belgian newspaper reported that the canvases people are most excited and curious about are by Paul Cezanne, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir—and Vincent Van Gogh!

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


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