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oil paintings

noun

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plural of oil painting

as in paintings

a picture created with oil paint hung a beautiful oil painting of the bay on the living room wall

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Recent Examples of oil paintings There remained his oil paintings and the many books marked by his handwriting in the margins—now mere traces of him. —

Literary Hub, 12 May 2026 The 10 oil paintings, which are on the 18-meter-high (60-foot-high) ceilings of the renowned Burgtheater in Austria’s capital, are being restored because of water damage. —

ABC News, 5 May 2026 The collection, worth millions, comprises some 1,500 oil paintings, including works by Rembrandt and Peter Paul Rubens, though their rightful owners remain unknown. —

Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 23 Apr. 2026 On display throughout the property is an impressive art collection focusing on emerging and established Latin American and international talents with large-scale sculptures, oil paintings, ceramics, mosaics and lithographs. —

Carole Dixon, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026 Franco, who came to Miami with her family from Venezuela, has made a series of oil paintings of people and scenes from the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop, where her mother is a vendor. —

Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2026 The lobby is framed by walls awash in a deep olive green and accented by oil paintings and tapestries depicting the city. —

John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2026 The art mediums vary, from oil paintings to sculptures and colored drawings. —

CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026 What once was a small drawing or painting has become breathtaking large scale oil paintings. —

Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026

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Nearby a glass wall that overlooked the second floor of exhibiting galleries, Sharon Stone was sharing photos of her own paintings with Frieze executive Simon Fox.

— Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 14 May 2026
The pas de deux between Billy and Kris is entrancingly sexy, and the film’s love relationship to movie magic is just as romantic, from Anderson’s grand-dame costuming to the matte paintings that serve as backdrops in both the film-within-the-film and the one containing it.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 13 May 2026