The signings will take place in the Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center main dining room from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Proceeds from the prints and those books sold through University Bookstore and Volume II Bookstore will go to the Civil War center, which is hosting the event. By Nov. 2, only 13 copies remained of the 500 Virginia Tech limited edition prints of Künstler's painting.

"Mort Künstler ranks in an unchallenged class by himself in the field of Civil War art. His presence on the campus does honor to the university. His contributions to the center will never be forgotten," Robertson said.

Initially, the New York artist's paintings focused mainly on Western subject matter, and he began attracting the attention of serious art collectors in the early 1970s. A 1982 commission from CBS to do a painting for the network's The Blue and the Gray mini-series directed his attention to the Civil War.

Künstler developed a reputation for historically accurate work, which he attributes to early training gained through assignments for National Geographic Magazine. His painting "The High Water Mark," unveiled at the Gettysburg National Military Park in 1988 on the 125th anniversary of the Civil War battle, is considered the most accurate painting ever done of the event. In 1992, the U. S. Postal Service commissioned him to do a painting of the Buffalo Soldiers and issued a stamp of the painting two years later.

Künstler's collaboration with Robertson began in 1995 when the two men worked on Jackson & Lee: Legends in Gray, which combines Künstler's artistic work and Robertson's historical text. Robertson, one of the nation's leading Civil War historians, has written numerous books on the period