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“I said if there’s a screw lying on the ground, take it, if there’s a canvas tent, take it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
The first episode investigated that illegible signature and the pigments possibly used on the canvas, including Prussian blue and ivory black.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Pantoja managed to take Van down to the canvas again and worked from the top for much of the round, showing that he could still trouble the champion when he managed to impose his style.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Uncle Holt’s old work boots on my feet, a pair of Karl’s patched overalls, rolled up, those heavy canvas gloves on my hands, topped off with my straw hat.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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He never shooed them away from his canvases, they say, and they grew up hearing him speak about art for hours during museum visits and at art fairs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
Early in 2024, taggers began turning Oceanwide Plaza’s skyscrapers into canvases for graffiti.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
“I hope that the canvases of the last few days will compensate us for the expenses of travel,” he writes to Theo.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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