Posted by vrcvanderbilt on Monday, June 25, 2018 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Vanderbilt University, VRC.

Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery will present a documentary film screening of Everett Raymond Kinstler: An Artist’s Journey on Thursday, June 28, at 6 pm in Cohen Memorial Hall, room 203. Prior to the screening, the gallery will be open from 12 to 6 pm. This event is organized in conjunction with the current exhibit America Creative: Portraits by Everett Raymond Kinstler, which closes July 14.

Everett Raymond Kinstler has painted more U.S. presidents, cabinet officers, captains of industry, scholars, and cultural icons than any other artist. Interviews with Kinstler himself, other portrait painters, and several celebrity subjects (Tony Bennett, Carol Burnett, and Tom Wolfe, among others) explore this body of work as well as Kinstler’s friendships with fellow artists Frank Dumond and James Montgomery Flagg. F. Murray Abraham narrates the 56-minute film that was produced by Dianne B. Bernhard and directed by Colin P. Russell.

Everett Raymond Kinstler: An Artist’s Journey is “a provocative documentary that invites the viewer into the life of one of America’s most important artists,” explained Bernhard, a renowned artist and art patron and founder of the Art Spirit Foundation. “The film takes us inside Kinstler’s New York City studio at the historic National Arts Club as he paints and speaks about his life’s work.”

This event is free and open to the public. Parking is available, free of charge, anywhere in Lot 95, accessible from 21st Avenue South. 

*Everett Raymond Kinstler (b. 1926). Christopher Plummer as Prospero, 2011, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 inches. Collection of the artist.