Tony Bennett, Everett Raymond Kinstler, and Donald Trump with Kinstler’s portrait of Trump. “The Trump portrait was commissioned by Tony Bennett as gift to Donald Trump, who posed for me several years ago,” Mr. Kinstler explains. “The painting is in his office at Trump Tower, NYC.”
My New York City studio (below) is located on the tenth floor of the National Arts Club. The view is unobstructed and the quality of north light is rich and clinical. The space measures 20 x 30 feet with an eighteen-foot ceiling. The window starts about five feet off the floor. I have a set…
“If I had any flair and ability as an artist, it lay with interpreting people, whether the cowboy or the pretty girl. I called it “cowboys and cleavage.” —Everett Raymond Kinstler