battle known painting french artist depicting charge climactic confederate attack union forces battle july versions painted surviving united_states version painting completed originally exhibited chicago lost time rediscovered purchased group north_carolina investors undisclosed november second painting originally exhibited boston display national military park removed restoration work exhibition reopened september new version exhibited philadelphia known destroyed location fourth version originally exhibited brooklyn unknown description painting work french artist depicts charge failed infantry assault climax painting type cylindrical painting intended effect viewer scene depicted addition foreground models life sized enhance illusion sites documented painting angle high water mark confederacy completed original painting feet high feet version hangs recent restoration version created boston feet high feet details painting development interested collaboration father created defence fort successful works included taking passage balkans belgian revolution attack park battle battle sortie commissioned group chicago investors create spent weeks april site battlefield sketch photograph scene extensively researched battle events months erected wooden platform present day avenue drew circle eighty feet diameter driving stakes ground divide sections local photographer took photographs section focusing turn foreground land horizon photos formed basis composition interviewed survivors battle including union generals based work partly enlisted team assistants including father death create final work took year half complete finished painting nearly yards long weighed tons completed display work included painting numerous artifacts sculptures including stone walls trees fences effect painting likened nineteenth century equivalent theater exhibition reception work opened public chicago october critical acclaim general commanders union forces repelled charge veterans battle gave favorable reviews realistic painting veterans war reported seeing chicago exhibition sufficiently successful prompt businessman commission second version opened boston massachusetts december opening approximately people viewed painting boston version housed specially designed building street site popular public lectures battle additional copies exhibited philadelphia pennsylvania beginning february fourth debuted brooklyn new_york october reviewers visitors agreed impossible tell reality ends painting begins veteran pointing painting said friend smoke wait moment till away stood new_york police responding report nighttime illusion twice seized representing dead soldiers convinced live displayed battle national_guard boston version boston housed exchanged temporarily christ philadelphia returned stored foot exhibition hall subjected damage weather removing boards fires eventually purchased deteriorated state newark new_jersey displayed sections department store newark beginning sections shown government buildings new_york_city baltimore maryland washington baltimore exhibition widow husband experiences found moved experience september ground broken new building baltimore street site present day holiday inn near entrance opened public time 50th anniversary battle displayed circular painting sections brick building took toll condition painting boston purchased national_park_service moved site grove near new visitor center second round restoration exhibition remained open public closed restoration million restoration inc virginia started sections painting recreated original shape panels hung circular slightly process original pieces found feet cut away fourteen vertical feet sky restored painting restoration accompanied construction facility house painting new hunt avenue located away areas fighting occurred restored exhibition reopened public september proposed demolition old building grove source controversy history architecture opposing destruction modernist structure designed architect chicago version original chicago work went tour cities returning chicago displayed world fair warehouse purchased north_carolina artist collector king seen painting years later described painting magnificent seeing displayed chicago friend maryland arranged meeting nephew painting purchased king king appeared panel game got secret displaying section painting secret painting revealed king searching time found hoped construct new building king bought painting consisted panels rolled piece easily store transport painting king panels stored individually separate panels scenery painting bit longer depending exhibition space panels extra scenery panels bring painting feet long according king painting remained rolled donated death university sold painting anonymous group north_carolina investors painting value million value sale remains unknown group intends painting new buyer commit restoring work building suitable structure house
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