The original double-height studios on West 67th were designed for working artists who needed the spaces for large sculptures or canvases.
She and her husband, Jimmy, who was known for large, intricately patterned abstract canvases, shared the duties as hosts until his death in 1984.
Even when young, he was a famously slow worker, known for very large canvases that took him forever.
Ms. Abts, an abstract painter, is known for dense and rigorous canvases.
Tor asked her to sit, and stood by a table on which lay four tubes, containers for canvases.
It is used for hand-painted canvases as well as counted thread canvaswork.
Some table easels can double up as carriers for wet canvases.
However much of Rugendas's works are sketches for major canvases, many of which were never executed.
Every detail of his subsequent cartoons for canvases was worked out in this way.
She expresses similar reverence for early canvases by Ernst, which she studies lovingly.