For nearly 30 years, Mort Knstler has focused his considerable talent on interpreting the Civil War. More than 160 of these images are the basis for the four volumes in this series.
"Gettysburg is a powerful work that accurately depicts the events, battles and personal struggles of valor on both sides of the Civil War" -- Container.
Mort Kunstler's Civil War paintings capture encounters between two great Civil War leaders, with accompanying text examining the course of their two lives and encounters.
A collection of drawings by Don Troiani that offers a tour of America's military past, recreating key military battles that took place in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Civil War tore the nation apart, pitting brother against brother. Marking the sesquicentennial of this epic struggle for America's soul, For Us the Living brings the crisis unforgettably to life through stunning paintings by acclaimed Civil War artist Mort K�nstler and stirring text by Pulitzer Prize-nominated author James I. Robertson Jr., interwoven with eyewitness accounts. This deluxe edition, with a beautiful cloth cover stamped in gold, includes a ready-to-frame photographic print of a stunning new Mort K�nstler painting inside.
For nearly thirty years, Mort Kunstler has interpreted the Civil War through his paintings. As part of his research, he has turned to leading historians and scholars for information that he has then translated on canvas to create an indelible image of the war, in many ways the defining ordeal in American history. The four volumes that make up THE CIVIL WAR PAINTINGS OF MORT KUNSTLER contains more than 650 images. Some of these images are of original sketches, others are of works in progress, others are completed paintings, yet others are details in the paintings that are of particular interest. The four-volume set contains the following titles: Volume 1: FORT SUMTER TO ANTIETAM, Volume 2: FREDERICKSBURG TO GETTYSBURG, Volume 3: THE GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN, and Volume 4: GETTYSBURG TO APPOMATTOX.
For nearly 30 years, Mort Knstler has focused his considerable talent on interpreting the Civil War. More than 160 of these images are the basis for the four volumes in this series.