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Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso all brushed their canvasses with it.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024

Candidates for both parties spent the run-up to Election Day hosting last-minute get-out-the-vote rallies and canvasses.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2023

Instead, he gave it blank canvasses and then told dr.dk:

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2023

In his 2002 book “Vermeer’s Camera,” the architect Philip Steadman argued that the “perfection” of the Dutch master’s canvasses could only be attributed to the use of optical tools.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2023

On each side of it are stretched huge canvasses, eighteen feet high and forty-seven feet long.

From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various