scene painter
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In his spare time, he served as a scene painter for local theaters.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2022
The Russian scene painter Vladimir Polunin, who helped paint the curtain, wrote that Picasso wore slippers so he could stand on the canvas as he worked.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2014
Excellent examples of the work of Adolphe Appia, as Swiss pioneer, with Gordon Craig and Robert Edmond Jones in the use of the modern electric switchboard as successor to the scene painter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Sunshine's loyal ally is Mr. Rainbow, the official scene painter who slips about, brush in hand, to give beetle, butterfly and snail shell the appropriate hue of the season.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was an art in which the delicate Miss Austen excelled, too; but Dickens's methods compared to hers are like those of a scene painter when compared to those of an etcher in colours.
From Confessions of a Book-Lover by Egan, Maurice Francis
