...Mort Künstler painted the first visual concept of Poldark for the cover of the Winston Graham novel Ross Poldark in 1970, published by Berkley Medallion?

It became the long-running television series Poldark on PBS. Künstler’s painting was used as a model for the casting of the actors. Künstler’s wife, Deborah, posed for Elizabeth, the blonde woman on the left. The television series starred Robin Ellis, Angharad Rees, Jill Townsend and Ralph Bates. Poldark was first seen in the United Stated during the 1976 - 1977 season of Masterpiece Theatre. There were sixteen episodes. Poldark II was aired the following year in thirteen episodes.

...on February 20, 1962, John Glenn became an overnight national hero when he became the first American to go into space?

...Mort Künstler did this painting for the box cover of The Mad, Mad, Mad Scientist Lab?

...Mort Künstler illustrated the famous Ernest Thompson Seton classic King of the Grizzlies?

...Mort Künstler painted the first visual concept of Poldark for the cover of the Winston Graham novel Ross Poldark in 1970, published by Berkley Medallion?

...Mort Künstler painted this gray timber wolf and pup in 1974?

...Mort Künstler painted this illustration for National Geographic magazine in 1965?

...this type of harvesting required nine animals and three men?

...Mort Künstler did this painting of Eddie Rickenbacker’s famous Spad from World War I?

...Mort Künstler illustrated the book Dinosaur Story, which was first published in 1974 by Scholastic Book Services?

...Mort Künstler painted the cover for Copperhead Moon for Dodd, Mead & Co. around 1953?

...Mort Künstler painted this picture of Theodore Roosevelt leading the charge up San Juan Hill?

...Mort Künstler did this painting for Russ Togs, the clothing manufacturer?

...Mort Künstler did a painting for the movie poster Busting?

...Mort Künstler painted this football illustration for the story “Scared Scatback”?

...Mort Künstler was awarded this plaque of Appreciation on February 1983 by the Secret Service?

...during the height of the Cold War, Mort Künstler was commissioned by Newsweek to paint this cover?

...Mort Künstler’s painting of Early Start was done in 1984?

...how being a sickly boy contributed to Mort Künstler becoming an artist?

...Mort Künstler did the drawing for the Max Brand novel Steve Train’s Ordeal?

...The Doctor Disagrees by Elizabeth Seifert was the first cover Mort Künstler did in the long-running series of “Doctor” novels that Elizabeth Seifert wrote for Dodd, Mead & Co. in the 1950’s and through to the 1970’s?

...Mort Künstler painted this cover for Stag, a men’s adventure magazine of the post World War II era.