Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-27
ARTISTS PAINT
GAO FEET LONG
PICTURE HERE
Longest Canvas in World Will
Be Used to Decorate Auto
Show.
TO HANG OTHER ART

The longest picture In the world is be-
ing painted in Indianapolis
1t Is picture $40 feet long and ten
feet high Were 1t stretched along wash
ington street It would reach from Me-
ridian street past Capitol avenue. 1t is
nearly three times as long as the Sol
diers and Sailors Monument is high.
six artists, working eight hours n day
and six days a week have been welding
their brushes uron it for two weeks and
will continue to paint upon it until a
day or two before March s in order that
it may be ready to be hung as the prin-
cipal feature Of the decorations for the
twentieth automobile. show in the manu-
facturers' building at the state fair
grounds, March s to 13.
The artists are working on the picture
in the loft of the stage Of the Gayety
theater in East Washington street 1t
was necessary to hang the frames in
which the CLOTH upon which the painting
Is being made from the ceiling so that
The artists work upon a platform thirty
leet above the stage level, so big is the
Undertaking.
WILL ENCIRCLE
ENTIRE BUILDING.
There is not building in Indianapolis,
outside the Manufacturers building, big
enough to provide room enough for the
artists to work upon the picture were 1t
70 be painted on one continuous piece OF
cloth from end TO end. So il was found
necessary to break it into forty sections,
each sixteen feet long and ten feet high.
When completed these sections will be
hung over the glass walls of the Man
ufaeturers' building in such sequence that
they will compose one continuous pan
Drama running entirely around the in
terror of the building. Being painted on
muslin, the sections will have the erect
OF huge stained glass windows. The
scenery contained in the panorama is de-
signed to represent the country as IL I'M
folds itself before the eyes Of the mo-
torist. This will be suggested by the ap-
pearance of a big road here and there.
Hills, trees, mountains, forests, streams,
flowers and other landscape features will
be painted.
The long picture is the idea of Frank
J. Zimmerer. art director of the Circle
theater, and Charles Read. decorator, who
has the contract for the Identification of
the show building. Mr. Zimmerer de-
clared the work to be the biggest single
job of scene painting in history. Five
Thousand yards of muslin will be re-
quired to complete all of the decorations.
OTHER WORKS
OF REAL ART.
Although the panorama will be the
most spectacular feature of the decora-
tons. other features will be upon a COM
mensurate scale. Large art shades are
being made to be hung over every cleo
trio light in the building and gayly col
ored streamers will swing from lamp to
lamp. The strictly utilitarian pillars
which support the roof will have their
unitarian character camoufaged behind
the eolors and shield of the indianapolis
Automobile Trade association.
1t is zeal task to plan and execute
forty different landscapes so they will
blend together into one continuous whole,
keeping in mind that we must have lovely
color and attractive design in the short
time we have been given to finish the
work" said Mr.. Zimmerer ut has re-
CURED lot of careful planning to get