Everett Kinstler

Everett Raymond Kinstler (August 5, 1926 – May 26, 2019) was an American artist whose official portraits include Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, both of which hang in The White House. He was also a pulp and comic book artist, whose work appeared mainly in the 1940s and 1950s.

Life and work Everett Kinstler was born in 1926 in New York City, the son of Essie and Joseph Kunstler.

He started his artistic career at age 16, drawing comic books, paperback book covers, and book and magazine illustrations. Kinstler also studied at the National Academy of Design. Kinstler said he painted Reagan " ... just the way he appeared to me - a confident man with a ready smile and good humor. He seemed perfectly comfortable with who he was".

Among Kinstler's pupils were Michael Shane Neal, Dawn Whitelaw, Johanna Spinks, and Loryn Brazier.

He died from heart failure in Bridgeport, Connecticut on May 26, 2019, at the age of 92.

Awards Elected to the National Academy of Design, in 1970 Copley Medal from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, in 1999 Inkpot Award, in 2006

Gallery

Comics bibliography (selected) As either cover artist, interior penciller/inker or both:

Avon Periodicals Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch Jesse James Kit Carson Geronimo Last of the Comanches Western Bandits Wild Bill Hickok The Masked Bandit The Dalton Boys Sheriff Bob Dixon's Chuck Wagon Realistic Romances Romantic Love Intimate Confessions Prison Break Eerie Murderous Gangsters Prison Riot War Dogs of the U.S. Army Boy Detective Space Detective Pancho Villa Phantom Witch Doctor White Princess of the Jungle

Dell Comics Zorro Four Color 491: Silvertip 534: Ernest Haycox's Western Marshall 651: Luke Short's King Colt 723: Santiago

Other publishers Flash Comics (National Periodicals) The Black Terror (Nedor Comics) The Black Hood (MLJ Comics) All-American Comics (All-American Publications) Blazing Sixguns (I. W. Publications) Wyatt Earp (Marvel Comics) Cinderella Love (Ziff-Davis/St. John Publications) Nightmare (Ziff-Davis/St. John Publications) Perfect Love (Ziff-Davis/St. John Publications) Strange Worlds (Atlas Comics) The World Around Us (Gilberton) Mystery Comics (Standard Comics) Thrilling Comics (Standard Comics)

Major exhibitions

America Creative, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN (2018)