EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER, NA ANA 1970; NA 1974 Born in New York, NY, portrait painter Everett Raymond Kinstler began his career at age 16 drawing comic books followed by book covers and illustrations for magazines. Portrait commissions include Tony Bennett, Carol Burnett, Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, John Wayne; astronauts Alan Shepard and Scott Carpenter; Tennessee Williams, Tom Wolfe, Arthur Ashe; Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush and Clinton, among many others. Recent exhibitions include the Butler Institute of American Art; Boston University; Fairfield University; American Watercolor Society; Vose Gallery, Boston; Richland Gallery; Allied Artists of America; and the National Arts Club, NY. His work is included in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery; Metropolitan Museum of Art; White House, Washington, DC; Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Harvard University; Yale University; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Princeton University; and the Butler Institute of American Art. He is the recipient of a Copley Medal, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Rollins College and a Lifetime Achievement Award, Lyme Academy College of Art.