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New Guinea GI Raider

Artist:Mort Künstler
Date:1962
Medium:Gouache on Illustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 23 1/2" x 15 1/2" Framed 31 3/4" x 24"
Condition:Mint
Original Use:Interior Two Page Illustration for Male Magazine - May 1962
Price: Sold
Above: Full view of gouche work on illustration board
Above: The artist’s signature

An original gouache on board created for the May 1962 edition of Male Magazine, illustrating “The Daring GI Raider Who Saved Our New Guinea Stronghold.” A large, finely rendered scene depicting a gun battle, with requisite yet inexplicable scantily attired native babes, as per the norm of the bizarre and lowbrow world of “The Sweats.”

Above: Detail
Above: Framed in simple black wood frame

In the 1960s and 1970s, men’s magazines exploited Cold War tensions and capitalized on prevalent working class American fears. “The Sweats,” as they are commonly known, followed the blueprint set by the pulp magazines of the previous generation, depicting perceived enemies as savages, Nazis, and Communist torturers.
Leading illustrators in this strangely subversive genre, such as Norman Saunders, James Bama, Norm Eastman, Rafael DeSota and Mort Kunstler, created sensational, figurative illustrations executed in a style markedly similar to Socialist Realism and its associated propaganda imagery.

A bio on the Artist follows:

Born in 1931, Mort Künstler studied art at Brooklyn College, UCLA, and the Pratt Institute. After he left school, he became a successful illustrator in New York, freelancing for book and magazine publishers, culminating in a long-term affiliation with National Geographic Magazine. It was through their assignments of historical subjects that Künstler learned the value of intensive research and collaboration with historians, leading to a well-earned reputation for accuracy and detail.

No other artist has ever recorded so many events in the history of America, and certainly no one has done them with such extraordinary authenticity and drama as Mort Künstler. From the Revolutionary War and Western or Native American subjects to his current recognition as the premier artist of the Civil War, he is considered America’s reigning dean of historical artists.

Mort Künstler has had exhibitions in numerous galleries and museums throughout the United States, including the Gettysburg National Battlefield, New York’s Nassau County Museum of Art, the North Carolina Museum of History and the inaugural painting exhibition at the new National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, PA. Many books of his work have been published in collaboration with famous historians such as Henry Steele Commager, Pulitzer prize winner James McPherson, James I. Robertson, Jr. and others. His paintings are widely represented in the permanent collections of museums, as well as in private and public collections throughout the United States.

New Guinea GI Raider

Artist: Mort Künstler
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, american, cold war, exoticism, Male, Mort Künstler, original interior illustration, pin up, pulp, the sweats
Added to Gallery: November 12, 2008

 

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