She moved into the attic of a painter friend and had a series of love affairs that led to an unwanted pregnancy.
("Soon your pictures won't ever be seen again except in Moscow," the wife of a painter friend wrote.)
For four years, he and a painter friend helped the peasants grow rice, potatoes and cassava.
Our painter friend may be happy with what he's accomplished here, but we don't know anything more than we did before we arrived.
But I remembered what a painter friend once said, "Artists love it when you love their work."
To the child, Mark Rothko "was just a nice, slightly melancholy painter friend of my father's."
And so, for my first few days, I visited writers, some painter friends, a teacher or two.
A painter friend, after watching a wonderfully inventive performance that became redundant, sometimes said, "It killed itself."
O'Hara easily qualifies as the American poet who had the largest number of painter friends.
A painter friend who knew the director arranged a meeting.