Placido Domingo

As one of America’s most celebrated contemporary portraitists, Everett Raymond Kinstler painted eight U.S. Presidents, six U.S. governors, more than fifty cabinet officers, and a panoply of well-known personalities including Marian Anderson, Tony Bennett, James Cagney, Katharine Hepburn, Arthur Miller, Paul Newman, John Wayne, Tennessee Williams, and Tom Wolfe. Along with our club, his works appear in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Portrait Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, and the White House.

At the time of his death, Kinstler had been a member of The National Arts Club for over 70 years, where he lived and worked since 1947. He painted over 2,000 of his subjects at his studio at the Club – including President Ronald Reagan, Katherine Hepburn, Tony Bennett, Salvador Dali, Carol Burnett, and Leonard Bernstein – and many of his works are included in its permanent collection. In the Fall of 2018, he was honored at the Club’s 120th anniversary celebration for his outstanding career and commitment to the arts.