Editing Stan Stokes

{{short description|American painter}}
{{BLP sources|date=November 2013}}
{{Infobox artist
| name             = Stan Stokes
| nationality      = American
| website          = {{URL|StanStokes.art}}
| birth_date       = 1950
| image            = Stokes Reagan Library.jpg
}}

'''Stan Stokes''' is an American painter known for his aviation art. His work hangs in three [[Presidential library|presidential libraries]].

Since the mid-1980s NASA has commissioned Stokes to paint 15 works ranging from the Space Shuttles to the [[SR-71 Blackbird]]. Stokes has also painted numerous works for [[Burt Rutan]]. Stokes's works hang in the [[United States Air Force Art Program|Air Force art collection]], the [[United States Air Force Academy]], [[The Pentagon]], the [[San Diego Air & Space Museum]], the [[Palm Springs Air Museum]], the [[National Museum of Naval Aviation]], and the Smithsonian's [[National Air and Space Museum]].

His work encompasses portraits, landscapes, aviation and space, ships, cars and his new collection of cat-related fine art paintings. Stokes's art has been published in numerous books and periodicals. Stokes is working on a book honoring the [[Tuskegee Airmen]].

==Works==

===Presidential library works===
Stokes's 12-foot-by-120-foot mural of the "History of the Flying White House" is on permanent display in the new Air Force One Pavilion of the [[Ronald Reagan Presidential Library]]. In addition, Stokes's painting of the {{USS|Ronald Reagan|CVN-76|6}} is hanging in the library's Legacy Room.

The [[George Bush Presidential Library]] in [[College Station, Texas]], has two paintings by Stokes on permanent display. Both are of the {{USS|George H.W. Bush|CVN-77}}, our nation's next aircraft carrier.

The [[Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library]] houses two of his works, the first of which depicts the future aircraft carrier the {{USS|Gerald R. Ford|CVN-78}}. The second painting is of the {{USS|Monterey|CVL-26}}, the carrier on which young Ford served with distinction in World War II.

===Selected list of works===
* ''1934 American Classics''
* ''Gotcha''
* ''Off to the Turkey Shoot''
* ''Sirens of Death''
* ''Slashed by a Sabre''
* ''Top Cover''

==Awards==
* 1975: 1st place, Benedictine Art Awards
* 1985: 1st place, National Air and Space Museum's "Golden Age of Flight" art competition
* 2000: [[R.G. Smith Award]], National Museum of Naval Aviation

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070622183627/http://www.stanstokes.net/start.htm StanStokes.net]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090526140621/http://www.tuskegeeairmenart.com Tuskegee Airmen Art]

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