The Artist's Journey through Popular Culture – 1942-1962
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Everett Raymond Kinstler paints portraits. His work hangs in museums, boardrooms, banks, private collections, The White House, and in the homes of his clients and friends. Before portraiture became his life’s work, he spent two decades honing his craft on the pages of comic books, pulp magazines and on the covers of books. All he ever wanted to do was draw. When he dropped out of high school at fifteen after his sophomore year, it was to take a job as an apprentice comic book inker. Less than a year later he was drawing stories, and a year after that he was drawing illustrations for pulp magazines like The Shadow, Doc Savage and Detective Tales. He went on to draw the comic book adventures of Hawkman, Jesse James, Zorro, and the very obscure but provocative White Princess of the Jungle (see above left). His artistic journey also took him to the covers of paperback books and the covers and pages of young adult books of the Fifties. Along the way he encountered and drew such notable figures as James Montgomery Flagg, Dean Cornwell, Howard Chandler Christy, Frank Vincent DuMond, George Bernard Shaw, Malvina Hoffman, Salvador Dali, Ayn Rand, Robert Brustein and James Bama. This is the story of his growth from “uneducated kid” to a painter of presidents and celebrities. Over 375 illustrations, many reproduced from the original drawings and paintings, accompany a biography enlivened by Kinstler’s memories and the recollections of friends and editors who knew him during these fascinating years. |
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240 pages, 8½" x 11" (21.5 x 28 cm). 380 illustrations, over 170 in color. Index. JVJ Publishing |
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