Thesaurus results for OIL PAINTING

oil painting

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Definition of oil painting

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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 painting On the wall above the bicycle hung a framed oil painting of the sorcerer Merlin and the knight Lancelot done by the Scotsman James Archer in the late nineteenth century. — Literary Hub, 22 July 2026 Collectors won’t want to miss The Adobe Fine Art, an award-winning 10,000-foot space filled with oil paintings of cowboys and gunslingers, fiber sculptures of Native American warriors, traditional Pueblo pottery, and much more. — Allison Savage Bates, Denver Post, 19 July 2026 The lobbies are lousy with academic-chic décor like books bought by the yard, oil paintings of dead white men, and displays of university memorabilia. — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 The 68 works — including 10 oil paintings by Kahlo — went on display at the Museum of Modern Art in February, the first public showing in Mexico in almost two decades. — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for oil painting

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Also, the figurative paintings hanging in the ground-floor corridor, by Portuguese artist Leonor Trindade Sousa, are for sale.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2026
Cameroonian painter Marc Padeu is reimagining classical Western paintings by infusing them with inspiration from his hometown.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 11 Aug. 2026

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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
But some of the big cats required sedation, including two tigers that veterinarians hoisted in canvas slings Friday and carried by hand to their transport crates.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026