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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

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

Caland worked constantly: on stretched canvas, on fabric folded in her lap, on a children’s menu, on the wall of her kitchen, or the sleeve of her smock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

It hits me as soon as I walk in—that smell of paint and canvas so strong that, for a second, I’m sure I’ll look up to see Gram sitting at her easel.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

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

She is best known for her monochromatic abstract paintings evoking fishing nets, and for canvases and large spaces covered with polka dots, evoking hallucinations she had as a child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

The artist’s long career swept in artworks made not only on cameras and canvases, but on such things as fax machines and photocopiers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Vincent gathers his brushes and his paints, his canvases and his easels, all the painting supplies he’d taken to Drenthe from The Hague, and he walks.

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




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