Sunday painter
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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And to the charges against him: “I am not an artist. I am a man who paints . . . I’m a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week.”
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
“I frankly was not expecting anything — a Sunday painter at best, or a kind of primitive artist that was not particularly my forte or my taste even,” Mr. Fischl said.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2017
One-time seminarist, navy man, stockbroker, art collector and Sunday painter, travelling salesman, bill-poster, ceramicist, labourer, journalist and editor, Gauguin also had an eye for posterity.
From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2010
By 1880 the Sunday painter in his 30s had become a tardy impressionist, imitating Pissarro's landscapes and Mary Cassatt's moppets.
From Time Magazine Archive
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