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
Growing up in Lake City, Tenn., Mr. Guyton remembers how his stepfather, a Sunday painter who worked in a steel mill, did his elementary-school drawing homework for him.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2012
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
Du Pont dabbles as a Sunday painter, yet his artwork does not provide a release for subterranean passions -- his landscapes are composed of straight lines, patterns and geometric shapes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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