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The Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment will present “A Conversation with Everett Raymond Kinstler, Portrait Painter” on Tuesday, April 15, at 4:30 p.m. in Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall, moderated by Professor of Studio Art Louise Hamlin, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Montgomery Fellows program. The informal talk is free and open to the public. Over the three decades since it was established, the Montgomery Endowment has brought prominent scientists, performing artists, writers, world leaders, and thinkers to campus to meet with faculty and students, teach, and engage the public.
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Kinstler was a student, and later an instructor, at the Art Students League of New York. His career as artist began as an illustrator for magazines, paperback book covers, and comic books during their “golden age” in the 1940s. As a portraitist, Kinstler has painted over 1,000 prominent Americans: performers, authors, and leaders in government, business and higher education. Kinstler’s portrait of Kenneth Montgomery ’25 and his wife, Harle, hangs over the mantle in the dining room of Montgomery House. The College also owns Kinstler’s portraits of Theodor S. Geisel ’25 (Dr. Seuss); John Kemeny, the 13th president of Dartmouth; and Lucretia Martin, who served as special assistant to Dartmouth Presidents John G. Kemeny, David T. McLaughlin, James O. Freedman, and James Wright, and as director of development. The National Portrait Gallery holds Kinstler’s work. He has painted five U.S. Presidents, including the official White House portraits of Presidents Ford and Reagan.
Established in 1977 through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Montgomery, the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment was created “to provide for the advancement of the academic realm of the College in ways that will significantly add to the quality and character thereof, making possible major new dimensions for, as well as extraordinary enrichments to, the educational experience offered primarily to undergraduate students within the Dartmouth community.”
By KELLY SEAMAN
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