Everett Raymond Kinstler, Life Member
Everett Raymond Kinstler was born in N.Y.C in 1926. He began his career at age sixteen drawing comic strips and produced hundreds of magazine illustrations and book covers.
He studied at the Art Students League with Frank DuMond, and taught at the League from 1969 through 1974. Kinstler ultimately made the transition to portraitist and soon established himself as one of the nation's foremost portrait painters.
Among Kinstler's more than 500 portraits are such well-known personalities as Carol Brunett, Betty Ford, Katharine Hepburn, Lady Bird Johnson, Tony Bennett, James Cagney, Placido Domigo, Gene Hackman, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck and John Wayne : authors Ayn Rand, Tennessee Williams and Tom Wolfe; astronauts Alan Shepard and Scott Carpenter.
Kinstler has painted over 35 U.S. Cabinet officers, more than any artist in the country's history. Five Presidents, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton have posed for him. His portraits of Ford and Reagan are the official White House portraits. He has portrayed Secretaries of State: Cyrus Vance, George Shultz and James Baker.
Portraits Include:
- Charles Adams, CEO, Raytheon Corp.
- John Akers, CEO, IBM Corp.
- Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court
- Charles Brown, CEO, ATT
- Willard Butcher, CEO, Chase Bank
- A.D. Correll, CEO Georgia Pacific
- Elizabeth Dole, U.S Secretary of Labor
- William Donaldson, CEO, NY Stock Exchange
- Mrs. Irenee DuPont, Jr.
- Sir Paul Girolami, CEO, Galxo Ltd., London
- Alan Greenberg, CEO, Bear Stearns
- Robert Hatfield, President, New York Hospital
- Alfred Heineken, CEO, Heineken Inc., Holland
- Thomas Kean, Governor, State of New Jersey
- Gen. P.X. Kelley, Commandant, US Marine Corps
- John Silber, President, Boston University
- C. Hugh Liedtke, CEO, Pennzoil Corp.
- Russell Long, U.S Senator
- Forrest E. Mars, Jr., CEO, Mars Inc.
- John McGillicuddy, CEO, Chemical Bank
- John K. McKinley, CEO, Texaco Corp.
- Richard K. Mellon, Pittsburgh
- Lewis Preston, Chairman, J.P Morgan
- John D. Rockefeller III
- G. Emlen Roosevelt, Chair, N.Y University
- William Schreyer, CEO, Merrill Lunch
- William E. Simon, US Sec. of the Treasury
- Paul Volcker, Chairman, Federal Reserve
- William Webster, Director, CIA
- Jas. Wolfensohn, CEO, Jas. Wolfensohn Inc.
- Dennis Weatherstone, CEO, J.P Morgan
- John Whitehead, Goldman Sachs
- Togo West, US Secretary of the Army
- The Presidents of Amherst, Boston, Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Dartmouth, Princeton, Willams, Yale College and Universities.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Rollins College in 1983. The national Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington D.C acquired 50 of his originals for their permanent collection in 1993. He is listed in "Who's Who in America".
He is represented in private and public collections including: Butler institute of American Art, Brooklyn Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Flint Museum, Michigan, etc.
Member: Naitonal Academy of Design : American Watercolor Society : National Arts Club : Century Club : Lotos Club : Players Club : Pastel Society of America.