Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — A Gigantic Painting. [ARTICLE]

A Gigantic Painting.

The most remarkable piece of panoramic painting ever attempted was a two thousand mile view of scenery along the Mississippi River, which was executed by John Banvard, the artist, who died in Watertown, S. D., in the summer of 1891. This wonderful panorama, which gave faithful and clear cut pictures of bluffs, river mouths, farms, prairie dells and wood promontories along the Father of Waters for a distance almost as great as that which separates St. Louis and New York, was painted on a strip of canvas twentytwo feet wide and nearly three miles long. Nothing similar has ever been attempted on such a gigantic scale, and, while Artist Banvard was not known as “the Michael Angelo of America,” he will long be remembered by the lovers of the curious in either art or nature as the man who painted the largest painting ever known.