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Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
Housed inside a classic Art Deco building, the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum displays the work of its namesake abstract master as well as other modern painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers and folk artists.
—Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Or head to the mansion-like museum Hôtel de Caumont, known for its modern and contemporary exhibitions, with works by photographer Steve McCurry, painter Yves Klein, or sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle.
—Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 17 Apr. 2025
This gossipy, epistolary novel is as full of epic characters as the Sistine Chapel ceiling: naughty Médicis, wine-drunk nuns, proto-Marxist painter’s assistants.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Earlier painters, like the Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki, a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, have laid the groundwork for this fusion of philosophical and artistic heritages.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
Housed inside a classic Art Deco building, the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum displays the work of its namesake abstract master as well as other modern painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers and folk artists.
—Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Or head to the mansion-like museum Hôtel de Caumont, known for its modern and contemporary exhibitions, with works by photographer Steve McCurry, painter Yves Klein, or sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle.
—Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 17 Apr. 2025
This gossipy, epistolary novel is as full of epic characters as the Sistine Chapel ceiling: naughty Médicis, wine-drunk nuns, proto-Marxist painter’s assistants.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Painter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/painter. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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painter
1 of 3 noun
paint·er
ˈpānt-ər 
: one that paints
especially
: an artist who paints
painter
2 of 3 noun
pain·ter
: a line used for attaching or towing a boat
painter
3 of 3 noun
pain·ter
: cougar
Etymology
Noun
from paint (verb) and -er (noun suffix)
Noun
Middle English paynter "a line used for securing a boat," probably from early French pentoir, penteur "clothesline"
Noun
an altered form of panther
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