Clinton Blair King
(born 1901, Fort Worth, TX – died Santa Fe, NM, 1979)
Clinton King is notably associated with the early 20th-century regional art of Texas (Fort Worth School) and New Mexico (Santa Fe Art Colony), during a period from 1924 up to the early 1940s. King’s early modernist portraits and genre were often compared to Diego Rivera, a quality recognized in Mexico where he received his first One-Man exhibition at the State Museum of Guadalajara in 1932.
King gained early recognition in Texas at Annual Texas Artists Exhibitions (Fort Worth, 1924-37, winning a variety of prizes). His many solo exhibitions in Texas include: Witte Museum, San Antonio (1933, 1955); Artists Guild, Fort Worth (1937); Texas Teachers College, Denton (1937); Elisabeth Ney Museum, Austin (1938); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1939); Corpus Christi Memorial Museum (1947). A solo exhibition was also held at Associated American Artists, Chicago (1948).
Nine other shows are noted at various Chicago galleries from 1941-66, and at Feragil, New York City (1949, 1950). From the 1940s and into the 1960s, King exhibited often in Chicago, New York City, and Paris.
