Max Sinclair; Co-Founder of Paint Company

Max Sinclair, 81, who with his six brothers and one sister founded the Sinclair Paint Co. in Los Angeles in 1932. Max Sinclair specialized in the shellacs used in bowling alleys and also worked in the sales and product development divisions of Sinclair, which was sold to the Chicago-based Insilco Corp. in 1971. The company, which started at Olympic Boulevard and Main Street, grew into the largest regional paint firm on the West Coast with 41 stores. Of the original family group, two brothers, Frank and Sydney, and the sister, Ann, survive. In Santa Monica on Aug. 19 of what the family described as a long illness.