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Little Known Facts About Mort Künstler

Two Tyrannosaurus Fighting for Duckbill

...Mort Künstler did this drawing of two fighting Tyrannosaurus for Dinosaur Story?

This drawing shows a Tyrannosaurus trying to protect his food, a recently killed duckbill, from another Tyrannosaurus. Joanna Cole, a now famous children’s book author, wrote Dinosaur Story and Scholastic Book Services commissioned Mort Künstler to do the art. This was before the age of movies like Jurassic Park and computer imaging, so Künstler needed to do research the way he still does. He found a top authority in the field, Dr. Eugene S. Gaffney of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and worked with him to ensure accuracy.

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Did You Also Know...?

...Mort Künstler painted the covers for a whole series of Nick Carter paperback covers?

...Mort Künstler painted this hot rod for the Aurora Plastics Corporation?

...Mort Künstler painted this watercolor of a knight on horseback, while a student at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn?

...Mort Künstler did this drawing of a deep sea diver?

...Mort Künstler painted the movie poster for The Passage?

...Mort Küntler painted the cover for All Sports Parade in 1952?

...Rockwell International commissioned Mort Künstler to paint this scene of the Rockwell Tile Team working on the first Space Shuttle, Columbia?

...Mort Künstler painted this hippopotamus and calf in 1974?

...The County Board of Commissioners of Washington County, Maryland, presented this certificate to Mort Künstler on October 4, 1986?

…this painting of a British Spitfire was done in 1958 by Mort Künstler?

...Mort Künstler painted Early Morn, Late Start in 1977?

...Mort Künstler painted this scene of a hayride?

...Mort Künstler did this painting in the 1970's for Windsor Canadian?

...Mort Künstler did this painting of the Avro Triplane that first flew in 1909?

...Mort Künstler painted many illustrations for the hunting and fishing magazines during the 1950's and 1960's

...this painting was done by Mort Künstler for the cover of New Times Magazine?

...Mort Künstler was commissioned by the Crum and Forster Insurance Company to paint a scene of historic Morristown for their corporate headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey?

...Mort Künstler did this drawing of two fighting Tyrannosaurus for Dinosaur Story?

...The Doctor's Confession was one of many book covers that Mort Künstler painted for the Elizabeth Seifert series of "doctor" novels?

...Mort Künstler did this cover of the Louis L'Amour paperback, Crossfire Trail?

...the cover for The Nymph Was Mortal was painted by Mort Künstler?

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