Artist Paints Largest American Flag Ever | Wilmington News

Wilmington News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 4, 2026 · 1m

Artist Scott LoBaido is painting the largest oil-on-canvas American flag ever made—nine by seventeen feet—live at the Great American State Fair in D.C. for the nation’s 250th birthday, emphasizing the flag’s universal symbolism beyond partisan politics. He rejects the notion that the flag belongs to any one side, defending it as the very emblem of the freedom that lets people hold diverse views and protest freely. The massive, public creation, set to be finished on Independence Day, is both a personal passion project and a patriotic statement, with LoBaido hoping it’ll find a grand home—maybe…