Stan Stokes
Stan Stokes is an American painter known for his aviation art. His work hangs in three 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 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 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 , 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 . The second painting is of the , the carrier on which young Ford served with distinction in World War II.