scene painter

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

Mrs. Pankhurst's second daughter Sylvia, the artist, pioneered the corporate logo: as designer and scene painter of the W.S.P.U., she created banners, costumes and badges in the suffragist livery of white, purple and green.

From Time Magazine Archive

People seem to forget that Guerin got his earlier training as a scene painter.

From The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth by John D. (John Daniel) Barry