11.   St. John made her first painting the night she found out he was sick.

12.   That voice forthrightly declares itself in the first painting seen at the Wallach Gallery.

13.   The first Haitian painting they bought hangs above the kitchen cabinet.

14.   The White House added the first painting by a black American artist to its permanent collection last week.

15.   This is its first painting by Ludovico.

16.   Those first major American paintings, nobly shown in the Pompidou, had nothing to do with the laid-back life of Los Angeles.

17.   His first major paintings were yellow monochromes.

18.   Young girls once learned mural painting from their mothers or grandmothers during initiation training, and their first paintings were declarations they had reached womanhood.