"Flag and Union Imperiled"   Lot no. 2997

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EXHIBITED:

Old Orchard Museum, Oyster Bay, New York,"Old Glory's Proudest Moments," June 10-September 8, 1978;

U.S. Navy Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, "Old Glory's Proudest Moments," February-April 15, 1979;

Hammer Galleries, New York, "Mort Künstler: Epic Paintings of America," October 23-November 3, 1979.

 

LITERATURE:

Commemorative First Day Issue, Old Glory's Proudest Moments, Unicover - Fleetwood Division, Cheyenne, WY, 1978, illustrated in color;

Catalogue, Mort Künstler: Epic Paintings of America, Hammer Galleries, New York, 1979, illustrated in color, p. 8;

Mort Künstler, Mort Künstler's 50 Epic Paintings of America, text by Henry Steele Commager, New York: Abbeville Press, 1979, illustrated in color, p. 51;

Magazine, Prints, Jan/Feb 1981, illustrated in color, p. 12;

Henry Steele Commager, The American Spirit - the Paintings of Mort Künstler, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, and Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1994, illustrated in color p. 84;

McPherson, James M., and Mort Künstler. Images of the Civil War. New York: Gramercy Books Division of Random House, 1992, illustrated in color, pp. 28-29 and p. 75;

Information Card, Atlas Editions, Durham, Connecticut, 1994, Card 19-03, Battle of Fort Sumter, illustrated in color;

Collector Cards, The Civil War - The Art of Mort Künstler, Comic Images, Saddle Brook, New Jersey, 1996, card 18, illustrated in color;

Postcard, Lawson Mardon Post Card, Sparks, Nevada, 1996, The Civil War, 1861-1865: The Paintings of Mort Künstler, illustrated in color;

Mort Künstler, Mort Künstler's Civil War: The North, Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1997, illustrated in color, pp. 10-13;

Collector Cards, Civil War - The North, Temecula, California: Scenic Art, 2000, illustrated in color;

James I. Robertson, Jr., Gods and Generals: The Paintings of Mort Künstler. Shelton, CT: Greenwich Workshop Press, 2002, illustrated in color pp. 20-21, p. 137;

Mort Künstler, James M. McPherson and James I. Robertson, Jr., The Civil War Paintings of Mort Künstler, Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Antietam. Nashville: Cumberland House Publishing, Inc., 2006, illustrated in color, pp. 34-35;

James Robertson, Jr., For Us the Living: The Civil War in Paintings and Eyewitness Accounts: The Art of Mort Künstler, New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 2010 and 2012 (Collector's Edition), illustrated in color, p. 16.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

 

Mort Kunstler has never been swayed by the vagaries of style or technique. His approach is straightforward and painstaking. For him the challenge is in the picture concept and in solving all of the problems of research.

   Work with National Geographic magazine early in his career taught him the importance of accuracy, and he goes to extreme lengths to verify the authenticity of his reference material. This has been a vital necessity for his many historical recreations and for corporate clients, such as the Rockwell International Corporation, which commissioned him to do a series of paintings on the space shuttle Columbia.

   Kunstler was born in New York City and attended Brooklyn College and U.C.L.A. before switching to Pratt Institute for the illustration course. His early work was for the men’s magazines, and he has also been published in The Saturday Evening Post, Reader’s Digest, and Newsweek. Most of his illustration has been involved with advertising, however, and his clients have included such major corporations as General Electric, Exxon, U.S. Steel, American Cyanamid, and Texaco.

   Kunstler has also been painting for exhibition; Hammer Galleries have given him nine one-man shows. In 1982, a commission from CBS-TV to do a painting for the mini-series, “The Blue and the Gray,” initiated his interest in the Civil War. His painting, The High Water Mark, was unveiled at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum in celebration of the 125^th anniversary of the battle, and is considered the most accurate painting of the event. Since then, he has been concentrating on Civil War subject matter, and his pictures are included in many collections, among them the U.S. Air Force Museum, the Favell Museum, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the San Mateo County Historical Museum.

    In 1986, more than 200 of Kunstler’s works were published in the book, The American Spirit – The Paintings of Mort Kunstler, with text by historian Henry Steele Commager. Images of the Civil War, The Painting of Mort Kunstler, with text by Pulitzer Prize winning author James McPherson, was published in 1992. Gettysburg – The Paintings of Mort Kunstler, also with text by James McPherson, was published by Turner Publishing as a companion piece to the epic feature film and mini-series Gettysburg. A one-hour television special, entitled Images of the Civil War – The Paintings of Mort Kunstler, was shown on the A&E network in 1993.