John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art
Reno, Nevada
The Lilley Museum of Art is located on the main campus of the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Artist: Clinton Blair King (American, 1901-1979)
Clinton King was a painter, printmaker, and musician. A self-taught artist, that continued his undergraduate studies at Princeton in the early 1920s. Connections to leading artists and scenes in Texas and Santa Fe kickstarted his career and his name was synonymous with regionalism in those states. It was after the war that he began to exhibit primarily in Chicago, New York, and Paris.
King’s formal, independent artistic education included study under Charles Webster Hawthorne (Cape Cod School, Provincetown), Robert Reid (Broadmoor Art Academy, Colorado Springs), and Randall Davey (studio, Santa Fe). His early work took inspiration from Impressionism and the early Cubist work of Pablo Picasso, but quickly evolved into the style he was best known for, vivid Modernist portraiture informed by his appreciation of Mexican artists such as Diego Rivera. King spent time as an artist in Mexico throughout his career, with his first solo exhibition taking place at the State Museum of Guadalajara in 1932.
Public collections that hold his work include Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Library of Congress and National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington; Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Baltimore Museum of Art; Smith College; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; New York Public Library; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Biblioteque Nationale and Municipal Collection, Paris.
Bio credits: The Annex Galleries
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