Her big, shaped canvases (not included here) have been more purposefully focused (Johnson).

He started as a painter, making shaped canvases with spaces carved out of the middle of them.

Williams was an abstract painter primarily known for his pioneering work with shaped canvases in the early 1960s.

They were among the first examples of the shaped canvas in American art.

He is best known for his abstract, shaped canvases.

When thinking about shaped canvas it might be helpful to bear in mind that canvases are normally rectangular.

He started working on shaped canvases and opted for increasingly large formats.

That is, the shaped canvases produced by the nonobjective painters of the 1960's were not the first in the field.

The Harvest (7'x 9' oil on crescent shaped canvas) was completed and installed in 1940.

Shaw may also have been the first American artist to make a shaped canvas.