Look at the BIG picture.

[starwheel]

Who painted a RAINBOW in the West in the BIG picture?

[Suzy]

Who painted a RAINBOW in the West in the big the BIG picture?

I would say God, the most commonly unrecognized artist, yet the most brilliant! He is also the most often replicated, where many people create canvased-forgeries of his work!

[Sal O'mander]

Who painted a RAINBOW in the West in the big the BIG picture?

Notice too the little Mesa beneath the rainbow....
is this "the Mesa" where The arrowhead was found?
Did Eric know Forrest's special place and commemorate it in this painting?
In the playboy interview Forrest was asked what was the most valuable treasure he had ever found.... Forrest answered that it was his first little arrowhead.... Almost quoting ver batim this very paragraph from the old Santa Fe trading company!
But why would he change the story? Did he find it in a river bottom in Texas or on top of a Mesa somewhere in the Rockies???
Perhaps the true story would give away more than he wanted to reveal.......

[starwheel]

Notice also that the rainbow has no beginning or end, it does not reach the landscape. Was this what inspired Forrest to attempt to complete it in his poem puzzle. Does Eric represent the beginning and Forrest the end? "Will lead to the end of MY rainbow and the treasure" Was he suggesting that the rainbow was his alone, and personal only to him. Sounds that way IMO.

[Rose Livingstone]

Rainbows can be seen with the sun to one’s back. By this I can conclude Sloane painted a scene on a planet with >= two stars.

[starwheel]

Rainbows can be seen with the sun to one’s back. By this I can conclude Sloane painted a scene on a planet with >= two stars.

Rose Livingstone I think that it is known as artist's licence.

[starwheel]

I’d like to see the whole painting.

You can see more details up close

I think this is Sloane’s alone. He was an interesting person

An Artist’s Inspiration


Sloane was born in New York City in 1905 as Everard Hinrichs, and as a child, he filled sketchbooks with depictions of clouds and made weather instruments from household items and magazine kits. As a young artist, he changed his name to “Sloane” to honor his mentor John Sloan, a famous American artist with the Ashcan School of painters, but added an “e” at the end. His first name, “Eric,” is taken from the word America and reflects Sloane’s patriotism.

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/e...-artist-clouds

willynilly Forrest loved it enough to feature it in his book "Seventeen Dollars a Square Inch" about his 10 year friendship with Eric. Therefore he knew it well enough.

[Rose Livingstone]

Rose Livingstone I think that it is known as artist's licence.

Of course. An artist can pick any planet they choose.

[Sal O'mander]

Also, if you look at the top left of the painting you'll notice an array of stars... I believe this portion of the mural wraps around to the ceiling putting both rainbow and Mesa "under a canopy of stars"

[trueyeti]

Who painted a RAINBOW in the West in the BIG picture?

Hey sw,
Hmmm....you reckon them thare mesas is in the "Rocky Mountains?" I wonder if'n that there painting has much ado bout de treasure chest's location, cause I ain't ah seeing any of them thar "Rocky Mountains" in that there image.....speaking of which...how come that big black square is there anyways? You tryin to bait the community into biting into what you're serving about your angles in a solve that runs hot and cold or something? Cipher outta them flat rock mountain tops and into the pointy ones mate....Cheers.

[Sal O'mander]

I don't think Eric knew anything about where the Mesa was or what it looked like.... He only knew the story of Forrest finding his first arrowhead and how the experience had changed his life...
if you listen to the Playboy interview, Forrest is asked what is the most valuable treasure he has ever found.... His answer... "That first little arrowhead".... It was his " rosebud"

[Gunrunner]

While Forrest may very well have had this painting in mind when he referred to the big picture, I think the "artistic license" in this case belongs to Kelly Sparks. Forrest never said any of that stuff about finding his first arrowhead -- he was like 8 years old, out with his father in a central Texas field. Those folks don't have mesas, they have motts.

[Duster]

Fruit chews?

[Duster]

That rainbow is red, white and blue....put that together and you get a light purple just like that cardigan Forrest wore when Kpro interviewed him.

[starwheel]

Forrest didn’t say you needed "Seventeen Dollars a Square Inch"
to solve his poem, but didn’t Jack say it helped?

willynilly Jack never said it helped, where did you get that idea from? He did not receive the book until after the so called find. Do you just make things up or what?
As regards the book would you expect Forrest to tell you that you need it, do you realise how silly that statement is?