Painting highlights

19 November 1974
Sri Chinmoy starts painting in a hotel room in Ottawa, Canada with a painting of a red rose.

10 December 1974
Completes first 1,000 paintings

26 February 1975
Completes 1,000 paintings in 21 hours and completes first 10,000 paintings

11 April 1975
Completes eleven large paintings, 4’ x 8’ that are displayed at Columbia University on April 12

3 October 1975
Completes first 100,000 paintings in less than one year

16 November 1975
Completes 16,031 paintings in 24 hours

29 April 1976
Paints a 12’ x 27’ canvas entitled ‘Larger than the Largest’ in under 2 hours

30 April 1977
Paints a 13’ x 70’ canvas entitled ‘C.K.G. Transcends’

10 September 1977
Paints a 13’ x 25’ canvas entitled ‘Journey’s Battle-Victory’ in 47 minutes which is later exhibited on a billboard in California near Fisherman’s Wharf sponsored by the Eyes and Ears Foundation

1977-2007
Paints 140,000 works of art overall by October 2007. He signs his paintings with ‘C.K.G.’  for Sri Chinmoy Kumar Ghose.