Mort Künstler (American, b. 1931) Green Corn Ceremony of the Creek, 1500s, 1976-77 Oil on canvas 27-1/2 x 40 inches (69.9 x 101.6 cm) Signed and dated lower left: MKünstler / '76 Signed and titled on the reverse: Green Corn Ceremony of the Creek / MKünstler '77 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF KERRY BETENSKY AND NEAL GLASS, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK PROVENANCE: Collectors' Gallery, Wantagh, New York; Hammer Galleries, New York; Kerry Betensky and Neal Glass, Long Island, New York, acquired from the above; Estate of the above. EXHIBITED: Hammer Galleries, New York, "Mort Künstler: History Recorded: The Indian & White Man in Early America," October 12-22, 1977; Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, and elsewhere, "Mort Künstler: The American Spirit," October 4–November 30, 1986; Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia, "Mort Künstler: The American Spirit," October 15–November 13, 1994; Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York, "The American Spirit – The Paintings of Mort Künstler," August 27–November 5, 2006. LITERATURE: M. Künstler, History Recorded: The Indian & White Man in Early America, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1977, p. 4, illustrated; H.S. Commager, The American Spirit – The Paintings of Mort Künstler, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1986, pp. 20-21, illustrated; The American Spirit – The Paintings of Mort Künstler, exhibition catalogue, Winchester, Virginia, 1994, p. 5, illustrated; H.S. Commager, The American Spirit – The Paintings of Mort Künstler, exhibition catalogue, Nashville, 1994, pp. 20-21, illustrated; Educational Media Project, National Geographic Society, NGS Picture Show: Native Americans Part I, 1995; Educational Media Project, National Geographic Society, NGS Picture Pack: Native Americans Eastern Woodlands & Plains, 1995; Grant Foreman, ed., A Traveler in Indian Territory – The Journal HID03101242017