"The Homestead Steel Strike" 1892 
Original Painting by Mort Kunstler

Painted in 1957 for a magazine illustration
Mint condition

In the era of rapid industrialization and business monopoly that came after the Civil War, everything seemed to conspire against the organization of labor. A massive flow of immigration provided sources of cheap labor and of strikebreakers; rapid mechanization threw thousands of workers out of jobs without any provision for relief; giant corporations arose with almost limitless resources; conservative judicial interpretations paralyzed the use by labor of many of its most effective weapons such as the strike, the boycott and picketing; the legal fiction of “liberty of contract” assumed that the individual worker was legally the equal of the corporation, and had the same right to make his own contracts; and the new doctrine of Social Darwinism applied to industrial society the principle of “survival of the fittest.”

 

No wonder much of industrial history took on the character of open warfare. Thus, the violence of the Molly Maguires in the Pennsylvania coal mines, the great railroad strikes of 1877, the Haymarket “riot” of 1886, the Pullman strike of 1892 - which jailed Eugene Debs and converted him to socialism. None of these was more dramatic than the terrible strike of steelworkers at Homestead, Pennsylvania, against the Carnegie Steel Company. Here Mr. Künster depicts the culmination of that struggle - a pitched battle between infuriated strikers and Pinkerton detectives imported to the strike. The strikers won the battle, but lost the campaign when state militia moved in to “restore order.” Such a “victory” enabled the steel industry to continue the twelve-hour day and the eighty-four-hour week until the steel strike of 1919.

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" Looking For Trouble "
Original Painting by Richard Sloan
1935-2007
"Dean of The Rainforest"

Considered To be North America's "Dean Of Rain Forest Painters", Richard Sloan was born in Chicago, Illinois where he attended the American Academy Of Art. He then worked as an advertising illustrator before joining Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo as staff artist. After a 1966 sell-out solo Exhibition at the Abercrombie & Fitch Gallery in Chicago, Sloan left Lincoln Park to embark upon a lifetime of capturing images of the world's rainforests in paint. He was the first North American Painter to devote all of his efforts to documenting  the animals of the Worlds’ Rain Forests. Since his first trip to British Guiana (Guyana) in 1969, he has made seventeen  expeditions to the Amazon Basin, the Peruvian Andes, Guatemala, Trinidad, Tobago, Belize, Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and recently to Thailand. His paintings have been exhibited at The National Geographic Society's Explorers Hall, The American Museum Of Natural History, The California Academy Of Sciences, The Carnegie Museum, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Gilcrease Museum and many other museums and galleries throughout the United States. Since 1979, his work has been included in twenty-four Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Birds in Art exhibitions and in 1994, the museum conferred upon Sloan the honor of Master Wildlife Artist. In March 2002 at the invitational, juried exhibition Impressions of Bonnet House in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl he was given the Peoples Choice Award. And in August 2003, he was inducted into The Arizona Outdoor Hall Of Fame. His works are included in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian Institution, The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, The Art Institute Of The Arizona – Sonora Desert Museum, The Arizona Wildlife Foundation, The Illinois State Museum, The Denver Museum Of  Natural History, and private collections throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Europe and Japan. He has been commissioned by The World Wildlife Fund to design postage stamps and first day covers for Trinidad, Tobago, Guatemala, The Philippines, and The Falkland Islands. In Spring of 1998, The University Of Arizona Press published The Raptors Of Arizona, a 220 page volume on the birds of prey of the Southwest, featuring 42 Sloan Paintings. Richard Sloan's work appears in many books, including Wildlife Art / More Paintings of the Modern Masters and The Best of Wildlife Art, volumes 1&2.


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