Charles Kerins

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Charles Kerins

Born December 7, 1915(1915-12-07)
Brookline, Massachusetts
Died January 1988
Pocasset, Massachusetts
Nationality United States
Influenced by Cyrus Dallin

Charles M. Kerins (December 7, 1915–January 1988) American illustrator and painter.

Kerins is a listed artist. Graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Northeastern University. Twice married, Kerins had nine children. He was named one of America's Top 100 Illustrators.[citation needed] Kerins studied under sculptor Cyrus Dallin who had a profound affect on Kerins' attention to anatomy in his paintings.

Kerins chronicled the idealized American dream of the 1950s and 1960s in paintings. Kerins' paintings appeared as covers for Boston Red Sox Yearbooks, Converse Yearbooks, Catholic Boy magazine, and numerous ads in the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, and National Geographic magazine. Oil portraits compromised much of his body of work. Portraits include; Wifred L. O'Leary, John F. Kennedy, Richard Cardinal Cushing, Joseph Martin, Pope John XXIII among others. Kerins' studios were at Scituate, Massachusetts and Pocasset, Massachusetts.

In classical tradition, Kerins worked from live models and used many local people, including a young Mark Goddard of Lost in Space. A hallmark of the artist's work is excellent anatomy and dynamic action. Charles Kerins style is unique, but is sometimes compared to Illustrators Norman Rockwell and Harry Anderson.

Charles Kerins was married to Kathryn (4 children), his agent for more than thirty years, and Dona (five children).

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NAME Kerins, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION American illustrator and painter.
DATE OF BIRTH 1915-12-7
PLACE OF BIRTH Brookline, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH January 1988
PLACE OF DEATH Pocasset, Massachusetts
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