canvases

variants also canvasses
plural of canvas

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Recent Examples of canvases Preservationists have voiced concerns that vibrations created by the cars could damage artworks by cracking canvases or loosening mounts. Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 For these works, Warhol covered canvases in a metallic gold and copper background and had friends and acquaintances urinate directly onto them. Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2026 Detectives are working to obtain search warrants and conduct canvasses and interviews, according to the East Windsor Police Department. Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026 Few works in the show are titled, boxes filled with objects remain closed (one is even tightly wrapped in cellophane), and canvases are stacked one atop the other like pizza boxes—content and images concealed. Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 14 Aug. 2026 Every day that the weather allows, Jose David Morales-Ortiz, 65, will hang around a dozen canvases on his fence and sit outside for hours, selling original paintings and other handmade trinkets to passersby. Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 10 Aug. 2026 At the Whitney Biennial, Carmen de Monteflores’s long-unseen shaped canvases of colorful overlapping figures hung alongside her daughter Andrea Fraser’s wax sculptures of sleeping toddlers. Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026 Her own method is to paint directly onto wild-cotton canvases, without any preliminary drawings. Gabriella Angeleti, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026 Broadhurst also was a painter who created more than 2,000 canvases, some of which have been exhibited at the Broadhurst Art Gallery (named for him) at the Stissing Center in Pine Plains, New York. Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canvases
paintings
Noun
  • The zaobanchu, located in the Forbidden City complex and around the country, had dozens of departments specializing in paintings, textiles, wood carving, materials and more — every minute aspect required to create elaborate pieces.
    Stephy Chung, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Kristinka Lazar, for example, used the time as an artistic residency to create a collection of paintings called The Gift of Being Seen, featuring 45 portraits of local villagers.
    Liz Provencher, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026

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