Everett Raymond Kinstler (August 5, 1926 – May 26, 2019) was an American portrait artist. He painted official portraits of businesspeople and also Presidents of the United States. He painted portraits for Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.
Life
Kinstler was born in New York in 1926. He studied at the Art Students League of New York and taught there between 1969 and 1974. He died on May 26, 2019 of a short-illness at the age of 92.
Awards
Elected into the National Academy of Design, in 1970
Copley Medal from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, in 1999
Inkpot Award, in 2006
Gallery
References
Other websites
Official site
1926 births
2019 deaths
American painters
American comics artists
Educators from New York (state) Artists from New York (state)