Everett Raymond Kinstler is an American artist, best known for his portraits. After a successful stint as a comic book artist in the 1940s and 1950s, Kinstler turned his attention to portraits. He has painted over 1200 of them including Presidents Gerald Ford Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, authors Arthur Miller, Ayn Rand, and Tennessee Williams, business leader John D. Rockefeller III, Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Harry Blackman, the presidents of several colleges and universities including Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Smith, and Wellesley, and well-known individuals like Tony Bennett, Carol Burnett, Betty Ford, Gene Hackman, and John Wayne, among numerous others.
In fact, Kinstler painted the portrait of Kenneth and Harle Montgomery, who endowed the Montgomery Fellows Program, which hangs over the mantle in the dining room of Dartmouth’s Montgomery House. Dartmouth also owns Kinstler portraits of Theodor S. Geisel (Dr. Seuss), John Kemeny, the 13th president of Dartmouth, and Lucretia Martin, who served as special assistant to several Dartmouth presidents and as the director of development.
Kinstler’s works have earned him an Inkpot Award, a Copley Medal from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and membership to the National Academy of Design. He has also received honorary degrees from Rollins College and Lyme Academy College of Art. The National Portrait Gallery has several of his works in its permanent collection, and Kinstler is also represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Butler Institute of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.
During his time as a Montgomery Fellow, Kinstler was featured in an event titled “A Conversation with Everett Raymond Kinsteler, Portrait Painter”.