Calverhine

The Battle of Calverhine is a panoramic collage created around 1930 by Henry Darger, an American recluse generally described as an outsider artist. The largest of his collages at 37.4 inches (95 cm) tall and 116.6 inches (296 cm) long, it depicts a chaotic battle scene in a forested environment. Darger made the piece by pasting hundreds of source images clipped out from black-and-white photographs and illustrations, many line engravings of scenes in American military history. He then hand-colored the piece, giving the soldiers red uniforms, and hand-drew some of the trees. Explosions and smoke clouds dot the image.