Stan Stokes

Stan Stokes is an American painter known for his aviation art. His take steps 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 along with 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 play encompasses portraits, landscapes, aviation and space, ships, cars and his new increase of cat-related fine art paintings. Stokes's art has been published in numerous books and periodicals. Stokes is working upon a book love the Tuskegee Airmen.