Show THE LARGEST PAINTING KNOWN the most moat remarkable piece of pavlo i if ramie painting ever attempted was a 2000 view view of scenery alongi along the mississippi n river i ver which by bp ohn Ra banvard nvard the artist who died at watertown S D in the summer oa 1891 this wonderful panorama which gave faithful and dear cut pictures afi save bluffs aluffi river mouth mouths farm alarms prairie dells and wooded promontories along thi the lather of waters for fora a almost as great as that which separates stu louis from new york was painted on a strip of canvas twenty two feet wide and nearly three miles long nothing similar haseker has ever been attempt edon such a gigan tic scale and while artist banvard was not known as the michael angelo oj oi america he will long be remembered by the lovers of the curious in either art or nature as the man maa who painted pain tedi the largest painting ever knowd sh louis louif Rc fuiS |