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MORT KÜNSTLER (1931-2025)
Sheridan's Men
signed with conjoined initials and dated '© MKünstler/'82' (lower left)
oil on board
23 x 2934 in. (58.4 x 75.6 cm.)
Painted in 1982.
Provenance
The artist.
Hammer Galleries, New York.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1982.
Private collection, New York, by descent from the above.
Christie's, New York, 25 March 2015, lot 107, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
H.S. Commager, The American Spirit-The Paintings of Mort Künstler, New York, 1986, pp. 8, 88-89, illustrated.
Civil War 1990 Calendar, Stamford, Connecticut, 1990, illustrated.
First Day Issue, Philatelic History of the Civil War featuring artwork by Mort Künstler, “Campaign to capture Mobile Begins,” MBI: Postal Commemorative Society, Norwalk, Connecticut, postmark Mar. 17,1990, Envelope 95, illustrated.
J.M. McPherson, Images of the Civil War, New York, 1992, pp. 146-47, 182, illustrated.
Information Card, Atlas Editions, Durham, Connecticut, 1994, Card 21-10, Battle of Cold Harbor.
M. Künstler, R. Gragg, The Civil War, 1861-1865: The Paintings of Mort Künstler, Sparks, Nevada, 1996, pp. 10-11, illustrated.
Civil War Calendar 1996, Delafield, Wisconsin, 1996, illustrated.
Collector Cards, The Civil War: The Art of Mort Künstler, Saddle Brook, New Jersey, 1996, card 11.
M. Künstler, Mort Künstler's Civil War: The North, Nashville, Tennessee, 1997, pp. 162-67, illustrated.
Civil War Calendar 1999, Baltimore, Maryland, 1999, illustrated.
Civil War Calendar 2001, Delafield, Wisconsin, 2001, illustrated.
Civil War Calendar 2008, Waukesha, Wisconsin, 2008, illustrated.
M. Künstler, The Civil War Paintings of Mort Künstler, Vol 4: Gettysburg to Appomattox, Nashville, Tennesee, 2008, pp. 127, 128-29, p. 130-131, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Hammer Galleries, Mort Künstler: Epic Paintings of America, November 23-December 11, 1982, p. 1, illustrated.
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, "For Us the Living": The Civil War in Paintings by Mort Kunstler, September 25, 2010-January 9, 2011.
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General Philip Henry Sheridan was one of the most successful commanders of the Union cavalry. This painting depicts Company L of a cavalry regiment deployed and ready for battle early on the morning of October 19th, 1864 outside Cedar Creek.

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