Everett Raymond Kinstler (1926-2019) American
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Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 40” x 30”
Frame Size: 48” x 38”
Signature: Lower left
Price: SOLD
Biography/Statement
Everett Raymond Kinstler, known as a painter of illustrational portraits, though he also works in landscape, was born in 1926 in New York City. He was drawing for comic books by age sixteen. He studied with Frank DuMond at the Art Students League in New York City. In the 1950s, he worked primarily for Stan Lee’s Atlas publications, drawing for mystery, war and western stories. He drew Zorro for Dell Publishing, as well as Kit Carson, The Shadow, and Hawkman for other venues.
Eventually, over the course of fifteen years, Kinstler made hundreds of pulp, magazine, and book illustrations, as well as book covers. During his early years, Kinstler was helped in his career in illustration by James Montgomery Flagg, the creator of the famous “I Want You” Uncle Sam recruiting poster during World War I.
By the late 1950s, Kinstler, influenced by study with portraitist Wayman Adams, was turning more to portrait painting. He submitted a portfolio to Portraits, Incorporated in New York City, and this led to Kinstler’s portrait of Forrest E. Mars, Jr. of the candy company, and a dozen others of the family over the years. In 1959, Kinstler had his first major exhibition of portraits and landscapes at Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City, and by 1963, portraits were his main endeavor.
In 1999, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., which has more than fifty Kinstler portraits in its collection, awarded him the Copley Medal for his work as a portraitist. Rollins College (1983) and the Lyme Academy College of Art (2002) awarded Kinstler honorary doctoral degrees.
His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Brooklyn Museum, both in New York City, as well as the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; and the University of Delaware, Newark.
Everett Kinstler has painted five Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton. When Kinstler’s portrait of Ford was finished, White House curator Clement Conger asked Kinstler to remove an indentation between the President’s eyebrows. “That fishhook has to go,” he said. Conger backed off when informed that Betty Ford, the President’s wife, had said about the portrait, “that’s the man I married” and “you’ve got that little worry mark just right.”
Among Kinstler’s five hundred or more portraits, are fifty United States cabinet officers, actors including Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, John Wayne, Gene Hackman, Katharine Hepburn, Carol Burnett, Peter O’Toole and James Cagney, as well as sports figures, entertainers, astronauts, writers, governors, college presidents, Supreme Court justices and Presidential First Ladies.
Kinstler was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design, New York City, in 1970, an Academician in 1974. He is also a member of the American Watercolor Society and the National Arts Club.
Source:
http://www.everettraymondkinstler.com/bio/index.cfm
http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ihb/govportraits/kinstler.html
http://www.lambiek.net/kintsler_everett.htm
http://www.npg.si.edu/pubs/profile/spr03/kinstler.htm
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