Pamela Stafford
Pamela Stafford (born 1946) is an American painter, model, and fashion designer known for portraits and murals, especially the award-winning New Hope, a 9/11 memorial mural.
She was born in Rural Retreat, Virginia, and grew up in Central Florida, where she led the Future Homemakers of America in high school. Stafford moved to Manhattan in the 1970s and has spent part of each year there since. She studied at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design, and she also studied in France at the Centre d'Etude Russes Saint-George and the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
In the 1970s she worked as a model, including as Miss Dodge for Marion Motor Company in 1972, and appeared in brochures for Aristos resorts and Casablanca Villas. She launched a fashion label, Stafford of New York, in the late 1970s before turning her focus to art. She paints portraits, takes commissions and restorations, and teaches private oil painting; she also produced the How to Paint the Portrait video in 1999. Another noted work is The Last Temptation of Christ.
Stafford has won the Austin Abbey Foundation Mural Award and first prize from the Florida Arts Society, with additional recognition from the National Academy of Design, Andre Wang Arts School, and Cork Gallery. She has supported charitable causes, spoke for amfAR, and volunteered with the Red Cross after the September 11 attacks, earning an appreciation certificate. She married Elliott Kuritzky in 1982; he died in 1983, and she later sued a New York funeral home over the handling of his funeral arrangements.
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