Example sentences for: spurling

How can you use “spurling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sole drawback: Spurling is "not an especially penetrating commentator on painting" (Kenneth Baker, the San Francisco Chronicle ). (Read the first chapter, courtesy of the New York Times .)

  • Spurling informs us that the pattern on the wallpaper and tablecloth comes from a bolt of blue cotton cloth that Matisse glimpsed from a bus and that in the course of revising the painting he changed the background from blue to red.

  • Book -- The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, The Early Years, 1869-1908 , by Hilary Spurling.

  • Spurling's scoop is her explanation of why, after moving several increments toward his mature style, the painter lapsed into a dark period that lasted from 1902-04.


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