Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-07-25
AN INTERESTING CAREER.
History OF an Artist Who Painted
a Picture Three Miles Long.
a Panorama OF tho Entire MIssissippi
River Drawn from Sketches Made
While He Was Travelling In
q Canoe.

other day in Watcrtown, S. D., Of heart
failure. His career as an artist, n trav-
clcr and an adventurer was unique and
interesting, says the New York Times,
+, and the story of his life is full of Incl
! dents that go beyond the usual.
| He was born in New York about 1920.
and his youthful days were spent in
study of drawing and painting, for
which he showed n decided taste at IN
| early age. When he was fifteen years
j old his father died, after losing his
! property, and the boy went to Louis
vile, where he worked for time rs q
| clerk in 4 drug store. A year later he
| had opened O studio and established
| himself as an artist. He did not long
remain in Louisville, but after painting
| several pieces he started out to earn his
living by exhibiting them, and he Wis
tied New Orleans, Natchcz, Cincinnati,
and other towns, going by boat, and
sometimes giving exhibitions on flat
boat fitted up for the occasion.
He made n scanty living and met
many adventures. and hardships. One
of his pictures, made about this time,
was panorama of Venice, which he
painted wholly from imagination, and
While on one of his river trips, Mr..
Danvard conceived the idea of painting
L panorama of the entire Mississippi
river. 1t was his ambition to paint the
largest picture in the world. lie set
about it in 1910. Alone, in an open
slliGf. with no outfit except his rifle and
his drawing instruments, he travelled
thousands of miles. When his rifle
failed to bring him necessary food he
painted pictures and exhibited them to
make money enough 10 buy food and re-
plcnish his materials.
For more than q year he lived in this
way, and when his preparatory draw
ings were done he erected building in
! Louisville, where they were transferred
to canvas and first exhibited. The
artists ambition was realized. Tho
painting was the largest ever made,
and, complete, it covered three miles
of canvas. It was one of the wonders
of the day, after the people heard about
it, and was exhibited in many cities of
this country and abroad, attracting
much attention.
After series of exhibitions in Eu-
rope the artist travelled extensively in
Asia and Africa and painted many pic
lures which were exhibited. Among
those WAS a panorama called Pictures
and Poetry of Palestine" and another
composed Of three pictures, First Bat
tlc-ficld of History" Siege Of Jcrusa-
lcm-Dcstruction of the Temple" and
'Ruins of Edom."
During the war Mr.. Barnard pointed
out to Gen. Fremont how Island No. 10
could be passed by Il canal and certain
bayous, and he madc charts showing the
route. LIS suggcsUions were a1ucrward
successfully followed. He was pro-
Life writer and was the author of about
seventeen hundred poems, several hun
drcd of which have ben published in
magazines here and in Great Britain.
lie also published "a Description of
the mississippi River" "Pilgrimagc to
the Holy Land" "Amasis; or, The Last
of the, Phnroahs," "Thc Private Life
of King" and Tradition of the Tenn
pic"
Two of his dramas have been acted;
"Amasl3," ct the Boston thcatcr in
1864, and "Carrinia," at tho Broadway
thcater in 1875. One of his paintiug3,
"Thc Orison," was the picture from
which the first chrome made in Amer
ica was taken. Nearly quarter of
century ago Mr.. Danvard established
his panorama in what WINS then
Woods museum on Broadway, which
afterward became Days thcater.
Here his pictures were exhibited, and,
with his lectures, attracted considerable
attention.
Critics have said that Mr.. Danvard's
pictures werc not great in artistic
merit. They were remarkable because
of their magnitude and tho rapidity
with which he made them. When cx-
hibiting his panorama he accompanied
tho pictures with descriptive lecture,
which often was feature of his enter
tainme nts.