You struck a powerful nerve with each of your renderings. Each example is so vast, so exciting, so staggering that once seen, it never leaves the mind.
Your images were often steered toward male-adventure magazines, top-lining periodicals like Newsweek and Readers Digest, gusty advertisements, historic events (many pertaining to the Civil War); and in still other instances, they promoted movies.
For the latter, you covered such noted headliners as The Golden Voyage of Sinbad; The Poseidon Adventure 1972; Beyond the Poseidon Adventure; The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974; The Hindenburg; Breakheart Pass; and television's The Blue and the Gray.
Your imagination was colorful yet grounded, extravagant yet reachable, as you brought to life a series of endless, towering dreams. In truth, Mr. Kunstler, you epitomized the notion that a painting could, indeed, excel all words, conveying the essential essence of what pumps through our primal hearts, what thrives in our unfettered souls.
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