Morton Künstler (American, 1931-2025). Boundary Line, The Trespassers paperback cover, 1980. Oil on canvas. 33 x 25 ...

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Morton Künstler (American, 1931-2025)
Boundary Line, The Trespassers paperback cover, 1980
Oil on canvas
33 x 25 inches (83.8 x 63.5 cm)
Signed lower left: © MKünstler / '80

Property from the Estate of Kerry Betensky and Neal Glass, Long Island, New York

This work was published as the paperback cover of The Trespassers by Giles Lutz (Ballantine, 1980).

PROVENANCE:
The artist;
Private collection, New York;
By descent to the present owner.

EXHIBITED:
Hammer Galleries, New York, "Mort Künstler," 1981;
Winchester, Virginia, Shenandoah University, "The American Spirit," October 15-November 13, 1994;
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York, "The American Spirit - The Paintings of Mort Künstler," May 28-August 13, 2006.

LITERATURE:
Magazine Illustration, Prints Magazine, Jan/Feb 1981, "Prints", p. 11, illustrated;
Calendar, Brown and Bigelow, The American Spirit by Mort Künstler, 1988, January, illustrated;
Exhibition Catalogue, Mort Künstler - The American Spirit, Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia 1994, p. 19, illustrated;
Dee Brown, Images of the Old West, Park Lane Press (Random House), 1996, p. 119 and 186, illustrated;
Collector Cards, Comic Images, Wild West - The Art of Mort Künstler, Card 42, illustrated;
Mort Künstler, Mort Künstler's Old West-Cowboys, Rutledge Hill Press, 1998, p. 94-101, illustrated;
Dee Brown, The Old West, Scenic Art, 2001, p. 12, illustrated.


More information about Künstler, Morton. See also: Kunstler, Mort, Kunstler, Morton, Mort Künstler Artist.

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