King is a painter who recieved his formal education at the University of Texas and Princeton University. He studied painting from Randall Davey and Robert Reid and has been associated with the regional art of Texas and the Santa Fe Art Colony of New Mexico until 1940. His genre includes scenes, landscapes, portraits, and still life, as well as modernism, realism, impressionism, and abstract expressionism. He has been featured internationally at the Library of Congress; National Collection of Fine Art; New York Public Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art; and the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris.