painter

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“If a comedian says he is also a painter, run. Except this once.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Martin Mull, best known as an actor and comedian, admits he’s not always taken as seriously as he’d like when he tells people he is also a painter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

In 1607, a fugitive painter named Caravaggio arrived in Malta on the run from a murder warrant in Rome.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026

“A Landscape Painter,” one of his earliest short stories, follows the antiheroic Locksley, a painter with one foot in both of the neighborhood’s social worlds.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

To the Paris police, it was an extremely promising lead: a thief who stole from the Louvre and a Parisian painter who bought stolen goods.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day