He reached a canvas covered by a dust cover and paused.

Tim Babington's elongated canvases covered with blurry but tightly vertical stripes suffer from familiarity.

Beginning in the late 1950's, these took place, surprisingly enough, on canvases covered with stains and rivulets of thinned pigment.

For this project he worked almost exclusively outdoors on large canvases covered by substantial wooden shelters.

The earlier prints on the film were of men who were being rolled across canvases covered in paint.

Around 1920, various companies began to produce either "soft skin" (canvas covered) or armored trucks for the Army.

Mr. Budd was best known for enormous horizontal canvases covered with thousands of small, thick strokes of paint.

Thus, Matisse's "Woman in Blue," with half the canvas covered by a frilly blue dress, is a composition of shapes and colors, not a portrait.

A new wrinkle is the latest work of Sean Landers, known since the early 1990's for large canvases covered with embarrassingly confessional monologues.

Lately, his large abstractions, made by scattering various powdered minerals across canvases covered with resins, display a similar love of randomness.