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Grace Edquist, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
The concept is inspired by the pioneering painter and sculptor, Michelangelo, who was able to turn one of the most mundane and inflexible mediums, stone, into something entirely new and awe-inspiring: art.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
The watercolor by painter Amy Park that Rickard sourced from art advisor Annie Wharton reinterprets select Ed Ruscha imagery of buildings on Sunset Boulevard.
—Jessica Ritz, Architectural Digest, 2 Jan. 2025
At 18, when Mariana was a new mother, the brilliant court painter Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez created a monumental portrait of her, which is currently on loan to Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum from Madrid’s Prado Museum as part of an exchange program between the two institutions.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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Noun
One afternoon in July 2023, the painter and writer Julia Felsenthal, her husband, and their two dogs took their small motor boat into Pleasant Bay, off the coast of Cape Cod.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
The concept is inspired by the pioneering painter and sculptor, Michelangelo, who was able to turn one of the most mundane and inflexible mediums, stone, into something entirely new and awe-inspiring: art.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
The watercolor by painter Amy Park that Rickard sourced from art advisor Annie Wharton reinterprets select Ed Ruscha imagery of buildings on Sunset Boulevard.
—Jessica Ritz, Architectural Digest, 2 Jan. 2025
At 18, when Mariana was a new mother, the brilliant court painter Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez created a monumental portrait of her, which is currently on loan to Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum from Madrid’s Prado Museum as part of an exchange program between the two institutions.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Painter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/painter. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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painter
1 of 3 noun
paint·er
ˈpānt-ər 
: one that paints
especially
: an artist who paints
painter
2 of 3 noun
pain·ter
: a line used for attaching or towing a boat
painter
3 of 3 noun
pain·ter
: cougar
Etymology
Noun
from paint (verb) and -er (noun suffix)
Noun
Middle English paynter "a line used for securing a boat," probably from early French pentoir, penteur "clothesline"
Noun
an altered form of panther
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