Sentence examples for canvas showing from inspiring English sources

Viewers sat in the center of cylindrical rooms, surrounded by a large painted canvas showing a landscape, a battle or another panoramic scene.

And they knew enough to raise their paddles when "The Victors," a 1979 canvas showing two Blackfeet warriors on horseback returning home from battle, reached the podium.

Segonzac, one of the judges for the 1924 Indépendants, argued strongly against hanging Murphy's "Boatdeck: Cunarder," a twelve-by-eighteen-foot canvas showing the stacks and ventilators of an ocean liner; he dismissed it as "peinture de bâtiment".

It announced that this painting, "The Wine of St . Martins Day," a panoramic canvas showing a mountain of revelers drinking the first wine of the season, and a few of them suffering its consequences, was by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

They were shoulder-length or waist-length portraits, their hues founded on delicate faded shades, lit so softly that outlines were blurred, the canvas showing through the fragile colours.

Even more affecting is his oil painting "Wounded Soldier" (1930), a large canvas showing the agonies of a dying man, assisted by a comrade as an indifferent officer looks on.

For 35 years, the State Department of Correctional Services has held an annual "Corrections on Canvas" show in Albany.

He may empathize with them, but to his credit, his canvas shows them for what they are.

Another canvas shows her lounging in an armchair, her legs loosely crossed, wearing a red blazer, a green skirt and an expression of bored indifference.

The 93.3cm by 73.3cm canvas shows a landscape with the ruins of an abbey done in his trademark broad brushstroke style.

The exuberant paintings on the walls are the work of Mr. Rodrigues; one striking canvas shows a white-coated Madeiran produce vendor presiding over an abundance of pomegranates.