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Little Known Facts About Mort Künstler

Apatosaurus Herd

...Mort Künstler did this drawing of Apatosaurus dinosaurs for Dinosaur Story?

These Apatosaurus dinosaurs ran in herds, with the smallest dinosaurs staying in the middle. The biggest dinosaurs ran on the outside and protected the small ones from enemies. 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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...Mort Künstler painted this Aurora box cover of Johnny Unitas?

...Mort Künstler painted this western for the paperback cover of this Louis L'Amour book, Kilkenny?

...Mort Künstler painted this Newsweek cover for the international edition of October 31, 1977?

...Mort Künstler did this painting of a Bristol "Brisfit" in 1964?

...Mort Künstler painted this World War II scene of hand to hand fighting?

...Mort Künstler illustrated many stories for the Hearst Sunday Supplement, American Weekly?

...Mort Künstler painted this book cover for the Douglas Reeman novel The Greatest Enemy?

...Mort Künstler did this pen and ink drawing of a deer hiding from a hunter?

...Mort Künstler painted the poster for the movie Breakheart Pass ?

...Mort Künstler did this pencil drawing that was used as the cover for Drifters Vengeance?

...Mort Künstler painted this domestic hog and pig in 1974?

...President James Davis of Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia presented this honorary degree of Doctorate of Fine Arts to Mort Künstler on May 8, 1999?

...Mort Künstler painted this farm scene in 1990?

...Mort Künstler painted this picture of D'Artagnon?

...Mort Künstler painted this picture at the age of five?

...Mort Künstler was commissioned by the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle to paint a record five paintings?

...Mort Künstler witnessed the test firing of the main engines of the Space Shuttle?

...Mort Künstler painted the book jacket for Hegerty, MD?

...Mort Künstler did this drawing of Apatosaurus dinosaurs for Dinosaur Story?

...Mort Künstler did this painting for the cover of the famous Helen Hunt Jackson book Ramona?

...Mort Künstler did this illustration for a General Electric national advertising campaign?

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