Also, search the term "cycloramas" -- like the entirely circular ones of
Civil War battles painted in the 1880s for Gettysburg, Atlanta, etc.
There's one in Waterloo, Belgium, too.
Eric White
Bridwell Library
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacowitz, Kenneth [mailto:Kenneth.Jacowitz@abc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 6:43 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: L. E. Browning
John,
I do not know this artist, but I think I know what you have. Back in the
1800's people would tour huge panorama paintings, sometimes or landscapes or
battles, but often ones that would tell a story. One like yours would be
unrolled to it's full length, and people would walk along it and, as in your
case, see the evolution of the earth with every footstep they take. Some
also would tell biblical stories or the history of the Republic. They could
be more than a hundred feet long.I've always wanted to see one.
Ken Jacowitz
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Does anyone have, or can point me to, biographical information about an
American artist named L.E. Browning, flourished c. 1875? I have a series of
12 large painted canvas panels, signed L.E. Bowning del., illustrating the
evolution of earth, sewn together to make a 36-foot vertical panorama on
rollers. Every on-line and printed archive of artist biographies to which I
have access has been checked without success. Any information relating to
this artist, who possibly may be mid-Western, would be most helpful. Please
reply to me off-group. Thank you.
John Windle
49 Geary Street, Suite 233, San Francisco, CA 94108
Tel: 415 986-5826 Fax 415 986-5827 Cell 415 244-8256
E-mail: johnwindle@aol.com