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{{Short description|American painter}}
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'''Charles M. Kerins''' (December 7, 1915 &ndash; January 1988) is an American illustrator and painter.

==Education==
He graduated from the [[Massachusetts College of Art]] and [[Northeastern University]].  Kerins studied under sculptor [[Cyrus Dallin]] who had a profound effect on the artist's attention to anatomy in his paintings.<ref name="AskART">{{Cite web |title=Charles Kerins - Biography |url=https://www.askart.com/artist/Charles_Kerins/105517/Charles_Kerins.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151030123148/http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Charles_Kerins/105517/Charles_Kerins.aspx |archive-date=2015-10-30 |access-date=2023-05-16 |website=AskART}}</ref>

==Career==
Kerins chronicled the idealized American dream of the 1950s and 1960s in paintings which appeared as covers for [[Boston Red Sox]] Yearbooks, [[Converse (shoe company)|Converse]] Yearbooks, Catholic Boy magazine and ads in the ''[[Saturday Evening Post]]'', ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'', ''[[Look (American magazine)|Look]]'', and ''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]'' magazine. Oil portraits constituted much of his body of work. Portraits include; [[Wifred L. O'Leary]], [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Richard Cushing]], [[Joseph William Martin Jr.|Joseph Martin]], [[Pope John XXIII]] among others. Kerins' studios were at [[Scituate, Massachusetts]] and [[Pocasset, Massachusetts]].<ref name="AskART" />

In classical tradition, Kerins worked from live models and used many local people, including a young [[Mark Goddard]] of ''[[Lost in Space]]''. Working with both Speed Graphic and Polaroid cameras, the artist used photo references as well as life drawings in the creation of his paintings.<ref name="AskART" />

Hallmarks of the artist's work are excellent anatomy and dynamic action. Though Kerins style is unique, it is sometimes compared to illustrators [[Norman Rockwell]] and [[Harry Anderson (artist)|Harry Anderson]].

==Awards==
He was named one of America's Top 100 Illustrators by the Chicago Art Directors Club in 1956.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}}

==Family==
He was twice married. His first wife, Kathryn, mother of his eldest 4 children, was his agent for more than thirty years. Later in life he married Dona and had five more children.<ref name="AskART" />

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.CharlesKerins.org Charles Kerins Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080523151445/http://www.illustratedgallery.com/collection/Kerins.htm Charles Kerins' work at The Illustrated Gallery.]

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