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Q. What's a Gallery-Wrap Canvas?

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A gallery-wrap canvas is a canvas that doesn't have any visible staples or nails holding the fabric to the wooden stretcher. Quite often with a gallery-wrap canvas, the edges are painted and the painting hung unframed.

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