Mort Kunstler Signed Limited Edition Artist Proof Print: "White House Strategy"
Artist: Mort Kunstler
Title: White House Strategy
Size: Paper: Image Size: 22" x 19 1/4" Overall Size: 27" x 23-1/4" | Canvas: 28" x 24"
Edition: Each print is numbered and signed by the artist. Each Giclée Canvas Print is numbered and signed by the artist's daughter, Jane Künstler. All are accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity to 100.
About the Art: It was a meeting like no other. Following the Seven Days Campaign in the summer of 1862, Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson left the field to confer with Confederate President Jefferson Davis at Richmond's Confederate White House. Meeting in the President's upstairs office, they planned strategy to protect the Confederate capital and save the South. (At times, the President's rambunctious five-year old son, Jefferson Davis, Jr. dubbed the General by White House staff would slip into official meetings.) Ahead lay glittering victories for Lee and Jackson, and high hopes for President Davis. Within a year, however, Jackson would be mortally wounded at Chancellorsville, Lee would be defeated at Gettysburg and Davis would be left to defend an ever-dwindling Confederacy. This unique Confederate council would prove to be the only meeting of the Souths three principal commanders at the Confederate White House.
Mort Kunstler's Comments:
I never tire of visiting the White House of the Confederacy in Richmond. It's so well preserved, and the architecture and furnishings are extraordinary. After a tour of the adjacent Museum of the Confederacy, a visit to the Confederate White House really does make history come alive for me. On my last visit, I thought about so many opportunities for paintings in the White House. Then I realized that to my knowledge, no artist has ever painted the only time Lee, Jackson and Davis met together there. I'm always looking for ideas that have not been painted, and this struck me as a perfect subject for an exceptional painting. That's how White House Strategy was born.
One of the biggest challenges in preparing to do a painting such as this is finding accurate likenesses of the people involved. In this case, it was particularly difficult. There are no photos of Lee, Jackson, or Davis as I needed to position them in this painting. We see photographs of each of them often, but they're the same small number of images all from a certain angle. Painting Davis was especially challenging because there are no photos of him in profile. However, I'm satisfied that the painting captures his likeness as he really appeared in the summer of 1862.
Title: White House Strategy
Size: Paper: Image Size: 22" x 19 1/4" Overall Size: 27" x 23-1/4" | Canvas: 28" x 24"
Edition: Each print is numbered and signed by the artist. Each Giclée Canvas Print is numbered and signed by the artist's daughter, Jane Künstler. All are accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity to 100.
About the Art: It was a meeting like no other. Following the Seven Days Campaign in the summer of 1862, Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson left the field to confer with Confederate President Jefferson Davis at Richmond's Confederate White House. Meeting in the President's upstairs office, they planned strategy to protect the Confederate capital and save the South. (At times, the President's rambunctious five-year old son, Jefferson Davis, Jr. dubbed the General by White House staff would slip into official meetings.) Ahead lay glittering victories for Lee and Jackson, and high hopes for President Davis. Within a year, however, Jackson would be mortally wounded at Chancellorsville, Lee would be defeated at Gettysburg and Davis would be left to defend an ever-dwindling Confederacy. This unique Confederate council would prove to be the only meeting of the Souths three principal commanders at the Confederate White House.
Mort Kunstler's Comments:
I never tire of visiting the White House of the Confederacy in Richmond. It's so well preserved, and the architecture and furnishings are extraordinary. After a tour of the adjacent Museum of the Confederacy, a visit to the Confederate White House really does make history come alive for me. On my last visit, I thought about so many opportunities for paintings in the White House. Then I realized that to my knowledge, no artist has ever painted the only time Lee, Jackson and Davis met together there. I'm always looking for ideas that have not been painted, and this struck me as a perfect subject for an exceptional painting. That's how White House Strategy was born.
One of the biggest challenges in preparing to do a painting such as this is finding accurate likenesses of the people involved. In this case, it was particularly difficult. There are no photos of Lee, Jackson, or Davis as I needed to position them in this painting. We see photographs of each of them often, but they're the same small number of images all from a certain angle. Painting Davis was especially challenging because there are no photos of him in profile. However, I'm satisfied that the painting captures his likeness as he really appeared in the summer of 1862.
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