Print: Brief Encounter - by Mort Kunstler

Limited Edition print available from the Byrne Gallery “Brief Encounter”, is a depiction of the Red Fox Inn (circa 1863) in winter time.

             Acclaimed in national art circles as “America’s premier historical artist,” Künstler is celebrated for his historically authentic and emotionally moving Civil War scenes.  “Of all the artists working in the Civil War field,” says Pulitzer Prize winning historian James McPherson, “none captures the human element, the aura of leadership, the sense of being there and sharing in the drama, quite like Mort Künstler.  He has that enviable talent of being able to re-create history on canvas and to translate events into art.”

 “He is the foremost Civil War artist of our time, if not of all time,” says Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr. of Virginia Tech, who is the author of the celebrated biography Stonewall Jackson. “To study his paintings,” says Robertson “is to simply see history alive.” 

Probably no other artist in our nation’s history has recorded so many events in American history and certainly no one has painted them with the extraordinary authenticity and drama as Mort Künstler.

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The Red Fox Inn is the oldest continuously operated inn in the US, it is located in Middleburg VA, in the heart of Fox Hut country. Historical Middleburg is the home of many famous through bread horse farms. Located on old route US 50 West of Washington DC.