1.   Huddle the painter had scraped the wall and begun a new fresco, his first church painting.

2.   His first painting goes up for auction on Friday.

3.   After all, who can deny the cool, snappy, absurd allure of those first giant black-and-white paintings, like mug shots on the scale of highway billboards?

4.   He recently discovered the first contemporary painting showing the Pilgrims embarking at Delftshaven on their way to America.

5.   He sold his first painting to Lady Bird Johnson when he was in the third grade.

6.   His first college football painting featured two lonely Michigan fans surrounded by Ohio State Buckeyes.

7.   In the first painting, a young man is seen experimenting with cigarettes, a water pipe, alcohol, sleeping pills, hashish and heroin.

8.   One of its Clyfford Stills was the first painting that ever turned me on.

9.   She began to make what she considers her first fully abstract paintings, in a style still evident in her current show.