Lot 307: CLINTON KING (1901-1979)

CLINTON KING (1901-1979)
Untitled Still Life, 1930s
Oil on linen
16in. x 20in.
Signed lower right

While largely forgotten today, Clinton King is arguably one of the most celebrated Texas artist native sons. He was born in Fort Worth and educated at the Virginia Military Institute, University of Texas, and Princeton University. He began his art training with Sallie Blythe Mummert in Fort Worth, and in Provincetown, Massachusetts, under Charles Webster Hawthorne. He also attended the Grand Central School of Art and the National Academy of Design in New York. His final studies were at the Broadmoor Art Academy with Robert Reid and in Santa Fe with Randall Davey.

His exhibition record reads like a who's who of major American and European venues: The Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth (1924-33, 1936-37); National Academy of Design, New York (1924); Fort Worth Art Association (1925 one-man); Broadmoor Art Academy, Colorado Springs (1925); Annual Portrait Exhibition, Santa Fe (1925); Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, New York (1926-27); Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art (1929); Guadalajara and Jalisco, Mexico (1929 one-man); Art Institute of Chicago (1929, 1943, 1944 prize, 1945-46, 1948); Annual Exhibition of the State Fair of Texas, Dallas (1931); City Art Museum, St. Louis (1931); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (1932, 1944); Galeria Excelsior, Mexico City (1933 one-man); Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio (1934 and 1955 one-man); Passadoit Gallery, New York (1935 one-man); Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas (1936); Fort Worth Frontier Centennial Exposition (1936); Fort Worth Artists Guild (1937 one-man); Greater Texas and Pan-American Exposition, Dallas (1937); North Texas State Teachers College, Denton (1937 one-man); Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin (1938 one-man); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1939 one-man); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1939, 1941); Alice Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago (1941 one-man); Southern States Art League Annual Exhibition (1941); Annual Paintings of the Year Competition, National Academy of Design, New York (Pepsi-Cola Competition 1945); Corpus Christi Memorial Museum (1947 one-man); Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (1946); Fort Worth Museum of Art (1946); History of Fort Worth Art, Fort Worth Public Library (1948); Feragil Art Galleries, New York (1949 and 1950 one-man); Elizabeth Nelson Galleries, Chicago (1951 and 1953 one-man); Texas Watercolor Society (1955); Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago (1958 one-man); William Findlay Gallery, Chicago (1964 and 1965 one-man); Chicago Public Library (1966 one-man); Illinois State Museum, Springfield; Springfield (Massachusetts) Museum of Fine Arts; Parish Art Museum, Southampton, New York; Dayton (Ohio) Art Institute; and Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art.

In addition, King had eleven exhibitions in Europe, including seven one-man shows of his work! Few early Texas artists can come close to this level of national and international recognition.

Before 1940, Clinton King's paintings were Regionalist in style.

Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present owner

Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.