For lesser known artists, only a handful of tunes may show up.

Occasionally he buys the papers of a lesser artist if there is a close association with a major figure.

I had conditioned myself to think of him as a lesser artist.

Some folks love scouring through hundreds of new albums by lesser known artists.

"Any one move can provide a career for a lesser artist," he explained.

The gallery also exhibited the works of lesser known young and older artists, often for the first time.

Still, it would be below my honor to mock a lesser artist.

The trustees took at least 25 works, leaving behind mostly more recent paintings and those by lesser artists.

It has suffered, as well, from association with imitations by countless lesser artists.

Do they not dominate the show and put the lesser artists in their place?