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Mort Kunstler, "His Supreme Moment:
September 19, 1862" mixed media on paper, 1995. Signed and dated lower right, "M Kunstler 95 ©". Sight: 18.5"H x 25"W; Frame: 27"H x 33.5"W. PROVENANCE: Hammer Galleries, New York. From the Collection of Sam Wyly, Dallas, Texas. EXHIBITIONS: New York, Hammer Galleries, Mort Künstler — Jackson & Lee: Legends in Gray, October 17 – November 4, 1995. New York, Hammer Galleries, The Civil War Paintings of Mort Künstler, March 31 – April 25, 1998. Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, The Civil War Paintings of Mort Künstler, January 11 – March 1, 1998. LITERATURE: James I. Robertson, Jr., Jackson & Lee: Legends in Gray: The Paintings of Mort Künstler, Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1995, illustrated in color pp. 88-89, and p. 171. Künstler, Mort, Mort Künstler's Civil War: The South, Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1997, illustrated in color, p. 70. Calendar, Lang Graphics, Delafield, Wisconsin, MKünstler Legends in Gray Calendar 2000, illustrated in color September. 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, p. 233, and pp. 234-235 (detail). James I. 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, 2012, illustrated in color p. 76. Mort Künstler (American/New York, b. 1931).