EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER is a native New Yorker who began his career at age 16, drawing comic books and hundreds of book and magazine illustrations, as well as covers for paper back books. As one of the "golden age" era of comic book artists, his illustrations for magazines, including The Shadow and Doc Savage, have influenced the pop art school.

He studied at the Art Students League, where he later taught from 1969 to 1974. Kinstler ultimately made the transition to portraitist, and soon established himself as one of the nation's foremost portrait painters. For over four decades, Kinstler also has devoted time to painting landscapes and watercolors.

Among Kinstler's more than 500 portraits are such well-known personalities as Tony Bennett, Carol Burnett, Peter O'Toole, James Cagney, Betty Ford, Gene Hackman, Katharine Hepburn, Lady Bird Johnson, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck and John Wayne. Others include authors Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Tom Wolfe; Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Harry Blackmun; Business leaders such as John D.Rockefeller III; Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan; six U.S.Governors; four US Secretaries of State; and the presidents of universities and colleges including Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Smith, Wellesley, Williams andYale.

Kinstler has painted more than 40 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 was awarded honorary doctorates by Rollins College in 1983, and the Lyme Academy College of Art in 2002. The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., acquired 50 of his original works for its permanent collection. He is also represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Butler Institute of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, etc.

Memberships include:
National Academy of Design (N.A.); Allied Artists of America;
American Watercolor Society; Pastel Society of America (Hall of Fame); Audubon Artists;
Copley Society of Boston (life); Century Association; Yale Club of NYC (life); Players Club(life); National Arts Club; Lambs Club (life); Lotos Club (life).

In 1999, Kinstler received the Copley Medal from the Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery, its highest honor.

A PBS film documentary on his career has just been completed.

You can see more of his work at:  http://www.everettraymondkinstler.com