Space was not a place where men should be anything but brothers. Whenever he had time, from his first training into his retirement, he painted at his easel.
There was a picture on the easel. Strickland, clad only in a pareo, was standing with his back to the door, but he turned round when he heard the sound of boots.
The morning after his arrival at the asylum, Vincent went into the walled garden; set up his easel and by lunchtime had painted this, the first of his asylum masterpieces.
For these colossal paintings, Monet worked on up to 12 canvases at the same time, which were placed on easels fitted with caster wheels and rotated according to the light he was trying to capture.
Her father gave her paints, and her mother had a special easel made so she could paint in her hospital bed, and had a mirror placed above her so she could paint herself.