Sunday painter
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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He was popular, but for a long time the critics condescended to him, calling him a lightweight Sunday painter and deriding him for his “matchstick” figures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
The painting had been donated to the University of Arizona Museum in 1958 by wealthy Baltimore businessman Edward J. Gallagher Jr., a Sunday painter who vacationed in the area.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2022
In 1957 she married Joseph Hazan, a wealthy clothing manufacturer, former dancer and Sunday painter, who died in 2012.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2014
This is a cultured, successful stockbroker in his late 20s, and you find yourself mentally turning the face of the Sunday painter to the future and to everything still only latent within it.
From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2010
Steaming into another gallery, they flabbergasted the owner by buying up, at 33% off, all the works of an unknown Sunday painter.
From Time Magazine Archive
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