Cover paintings by legendary illustrator Mort Künstler, to be sold at auction on October 15 by Heritage Auction Galleries.

Künstler is now known as one of America’s foremost historical artists, recreating important events of America’s Civil War. In 1992, he was commissioned by the U.S. Postal Service to complete a painting for a stamp honoring the Buffalo Soldiers, the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army. In 2002, Künstler became the first artist to be honored with a six-month, one-man exhibition at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pa. Recent works have sold for up to $250,000.

Highlights of the collection include:

Freedom Girl’s Iron Curtain Escape, For Men Only Cover, June 1964

Staked Out In The Desert, True Adventures Cover, March 1957

Double Trouble, The Giant Manta-Ray, Adventure cover, February 1956

Auction info www.HA.com.

Posted: 10|9|08 at 10:51 am. Filed under: US News.