April 2008
Everett Raymond Kinstler is one of the nation's most gifted portrait painters. A comic book artist of the "golden age" era, he drew for The Shadow and created the Zorro comic books before turning to portraiture. His 1200 portraits include presidents and other well-known personalities. In 1999 he received the Copley Medal from the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, its highest honor.