Everett Raymond Kinstler, Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project

Everett Raymond Kinstler interviewed in his New York City studio by Dickinson Research Center Director Chuck Rand and videotaped by Curator Art Ed Muno on April 23, 2008. Kinstler became an apprentice comic book artist at the age of 16. This launched a remarkable illustration career that later included pulps and paperback covers. By 1960 Ray embarked upon a portrait artist's career painting the likenesses of "Right Stuff" astronauts, Scott Carpenter and Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Of the more than 1200 portraits he has completed, Ray has painted the portraits of five U.S. presidents including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. For this Museum, Kinstler painted the portraits of Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, John Wayne, and Ronald Reagan.
The hour-long interview is available for viewing at the Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Please visit the following websites:
Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project
www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/r...
Dickinson Research Center website:
www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/r...
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum website:
www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/

[@ZZOTH]

great video, the end about Flagg is pure gold.

[@lucreziia]

Gosh...I hardly recognise Mr Kinstler now.
I posed for him in both his studio and at his painting class at the Art Students League in the early 70's.
One of the most kind, affable gentlemen I have ever met and that is saying something considering how distingished he is.
Patricia Gaffney
England

[@rebeccabutler3866]

Great interview. Love this man! Wonderful, talented artist as well as interesting story teller. Enjoyed working with him so much!

[@terrysanoff2480]

I have long collected Golden Age comics. Typically, I believed EC and Barks to be the Gold Standard. However, I could never get over Parole Breakers #3. I found out this was the man. An addition to the Gold standard was in order.

[@UnitedWeRize]

Awesome - Players Club is a great place to be !