Morton Kunstler

Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, For Us the Living - The Civil War in Paintings by Mort Künstler, 2011
Cartersville, Georgia, Booth Western Art Museum, Mort Künstler’s Civil War Art: For Us the Living, 2011
Lexington, Virginia, Virginia Military Institute Museum, For Us the Living - The Civil War in Paintings by Mort Künstler, 2012
New Market, Virginia, Virginia Museum of the Civil War at New Market Battlefield State Historical Park, For Us the Living - The Civil War in Paintings by Mort Künstler, 2012
Columbia, South Carolina, South Carolina State Museum, For Us the Living - The Civil War Art of Mort Künstler, 2013
Reading, Pennsylvania, The Reading Public Museum, Remembering the Battle of Gettysburg – The Civil War Art of Mort Künstler, 2013
Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of History, For Us the Living - The Civil War Art of Mort Künstler, 2014
Hagerstown, Maryland, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, For Us the Living - The Civil War Art of Mort Künstler, 2014
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, The Norman Rockwell Museum, Mort Künstler: The Art of Adventure, 2015
Winchester, Virginia, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Mort Künstler: The Art of Adventure, 2015
Canadian, Texas, Citadelle Art Foundation, Mort Künstler: The Art of Adventure, 2015
Stony Brook, New York, The Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages, Mort Künstler: The Art of Adventure, 2016

James Robertson, Jr., For Us the Living: The Civil War in Paintings and Eyewitness Accounts: The Art of Mort Künstler, New York, 2010 and 2012, p. 50, illustrated
Article, Newsday, ”Last Chance” [for Nassau County Museum of Art exhibit], January 7, 2011, p. B26
Norman Rockwell Museum, Mort Künstler: The Art of Adventure, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 2014, p. 18

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Surface: In generally good condition. UNDER UV: No apparent inpainting, some pigments are still active.
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The Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, also known as Rush’s Lancers, was organized in the late summer of 1861 as Pennsylvania’s first military contribution to the Civil War effort for the Union. Its members included many Philadelphia elites.  Colonel Richard H. Rush, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Mexican War, was chosen as its commander. Unlike other cavalry regiments, the men of the Sixth were equipped with lances, nine-foot-long wooden shafts tipped with eleven-inch long steel blades, weapons which had been used successfully during the Mexican War.  At the end of October 1861, the Sixth left its training grounds at Camp Meigs and began its month-long march to Washington, DC, to await battle orders.