canvases

variants also canvasses
plural of canvas

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Recent Examples of canvases This deal includes a T-PEN stylus with 4,096 pressure levels, making creating digital art and writing feel as natural as possible without lugging around all your paints, pens, and canvases. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026 Like late de Kooning, the picture plane has been emptied of people, just Alex and his canvases. — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026 The night before, amid the horde at the opening of Thaddaeus Ropac’s Georg Baselitz show, actor Damian Lewis was sizing up the big canvases. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 There, the walls are festooned with shapes that seem inspired by Cubist canvases. — Tim Hornyak, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026 Pollock used a barn on the property to work on his enormous canvases, while Krasner painted first in the kitchen and then in a small, upstairs bedroom. — Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 10 Oct. 2026 At Deering Estate, blue canvases stretch across a waterfront lawn, others extend among mango trees, while still more create a canvas shelter large enough for visitors to step inside. — Miguel Sirgado, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026 With Carrie, the architect of an elaborate dollhouse, and Florine, a painter whose iconoclastic canvases have made their way into the modernist canon, Ettie hosted a salon frequented by the day’s avant garde. — Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026 The auction includes canvases by Van Gogh and Cézanne, which are alone estimated to bring in $180 million and $120 million, respectively. — News Desk, Artforum, 30 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canvases
paintings
Noun
  • Their art selection is peppered with Alexander Calder mobiles, Ellsworth Kelly canvases, and Gerhard Richter paintings, works that offer plenty of reference material, naturally.
    — Angela Tafoya, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Next year, Madrid’s prestigious Museo Reina Sofía will open an outpost in the city, with a collection of 138,000 paintings, sculptures and manuscripts.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

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“Canvases.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canvases. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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