Jeff Kesses started and established Boston Portrait and Caricature Artists in 1999. Jeff is a graduate of both Dean College in Franklin, MA and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where he studied art and portraiture at both. Most recently, he has studied at the Andreeva Portrait Academy in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art in Van Nuys, California and the Sadie Valeri Atelier in San Francisco. In1989 he was selected to be the Artist in Residence at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA. It was in the Berkshires that he began doing commissioned work and exhibiting in galleries in Western Massachusetts and upper state New York. Jeff returned to Boston in 1993 to continue his professional career as an artist. He has since done caricatures, portraits and murals for many companies and private clients across the United States and Asia.

Select Clients:
 

American Repertory Theater
Audi

Barclays Bank

Boston University

Brigham & Women’s Faulkner Hospital

Cambridge Leader and Opera Society

Cataldo Ambulance Service, Inc.

Chelsea Soldiers Home

Harvard University

Joslin Diabetes Center

Kessler Financial Services

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Masterman, Culbert and Tully LLP
Norman Rockwell Museum

Santander Bank

Shaeffer Eaton Pens
Shilo Baptist Church

​Whittier Street Health Center

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      If you would like to hire Jeff to draw caricatures at your next party or event, you can contact him at:

 

                                        (617) 859-7389 or email jkesses@yahoo.com

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