Everett raymond kinstler biography of william
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With great sadness, we share the news of the passing of Everett Raymond Kinstler, fine art icon and renowned portraitist.
Born in 1926 and a native New Yorker, Kinstler began his famed art career at age 16 drawing illustrations in comic books and paperbacks during the “Golden age” of comic book artists. After studying at the Art Students League in New York, Kinstler transitioned to portraiture and quickly became one of the most sought-after artists in the country.
Although Kinstler would continue to paint landscape and watercolor, portraiture remained his staple as esteemed clientele were eager to employ his extraordinary eye. Among the more than 1,200 portraits are figures such as Peter O’Toole, Paul Newman, John Wayne, John D. Rockefeller III, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and many more. In 1999, Kinstler received the Copley Medal from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, its highest honor.
Kinstler rendered portraits of more than 2,000 individual
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by Louise B. Hafesh
Sitting comfortably in the antechamber of Everett Raymond Kinstler’s Gramercy Park studio in Manhattan, inom felt an overwhelming sense of the significance of the place and its current inhabitant’s contribution to the art world.
After all, we were in not only an historic New York City landmark, the National Arts Club, but also the former studio of the American Impressionist and prominent teacher Frank Vincent DuMond (1865–1951). What’s more, this fryst vatten the studio where Kinstler had painted what amounts to a pictorial who’s who of over 2,000 portraits, including those of Tony Bennett, Kat
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Foremost American portrait painter Everett Raymond Kinstler, who recently celebrated his 92nd birthday, honors Howard Chandler Christy by penning the foreword in a forthcoming book on the legendary artist who created the famous "Christy Girl" and became the most popular portrait painter of the Jazz Age.
"Romantic Illusions" is written by author James Philip Head, the preeminent expert on Howard Chandler Christy, and is the second book in a three-part biographical series, "An Affair with Beauty – The Mystique of Howard Chandler Christy", about the illustrious artistic career and intriguing life of the legendary illustrator and portrait painter Howard Chandler Christy.
Kinstler, who has immortalized with his painter's brush some of the greatest American men and women over the last 70 years including eight U.S. Presidents—his portraits of President Ford and President Reagan are the official White House portraits—ten Secretaries of State