Welcome to the Estate of Jonathan Winters—beloved comedian, actor, author and, less famously but just as reverent, painter.

Most people knew my father for his kaleidoscopic mind, his wild wit, the voices that tumbled out of him like marbles down a staircase. But my father painted for over five decades. Not as a hobby, not on a whim—but with that same intensity, curiosity, and off-kilter grace that defined his life on stage.

The works offered here—presented as fine art reprints through The Jonathan Winters Estate—come from that lifelong studio practice. They emerged the way dreams do: vivid, peculiar, entirely surreal. Some are humorous. Others are mysterious or melancholic. All are deeply personal—drawn straight from the same internal landscape that made his performances so alive, so unpredictable, so unmistakably him.

This collection is not an extension of his fame. It’s an invitation into his solitude. Into the private visual language he spoke fluently, freely, and often. What you’ll find here are not artifacts of his celebrity, but artifacts of another part of him.

Thank you for spending time with this side of my father’s legacy. 

It’s my great joy to share this part of him with you. The world knew his voice. These paintings are his echo.

—Lucinda Winters (written by her son-in-law)
On behalf of The Jonathan Winters Estate