As the priests enter the chapel, they are surprised to see a sensuously painted "Madonna" hanging behind the altar, and walls lined with relics.

Stars and Stripes dating from 1955 to 2000 are finely outlined, densely hatched and sensuously painted.

The one depicting three rows of disembodied horses' rumps remains among his eeriest and most sensuously painted creations.

Thinly yet sensuously painted, the pictures glow like watercolors, and they call to mind artists like Bonnard and Alex Katz.

The new images in question were often schematic figural silhouettes - profiles of horse or house, skyscraper or bird - set against deep, frequently sensuously painted monochromes of color.

They reappear in more naturalistic guise in several small, sensuously painted and light-filled oil-on-canvas still lifes.

Ms. Eisler bases her sensuously painted canvases on photographs of movie video frames frozen on her television screen.

Bird's-eye, impressionistically blurry views of cars and trucks lossely gridded on multimate roads or pedestrians crossing under tilting lights, sensuously painted with wide, generously loaded brushes.

Elizabeth Murray'S works are smart, animated and sensuously painted.

Each squarish, medium-size canvas offers a flat, thinly but sensuously painted harlequin patchwork of richly hued, interlocking shapes.