Robert Lentz OFM (born 1946) is an American Franciscan friar and religious icon painter.
[1][2][4] Lentz originally intended to enter the Franciscan Order as a young man in the 1960s, joining the formation program for St. John the Baptist Province, but left before taking his vows.
He took up formal study in 1977 as an apprentice painter to a master of Greek icon painting from the school of Photios Kontoglou at Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Brookline, Massachusetts.
[1][2][3] During his time in the Secular Franciscan community in New Mexico, Lentz developed a close relationship to the local friars, and again felt the call to join the order.
[8] Toby Johnson calls Lentz's icon of Harvey Milk "a national gay treasure".