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Basil King (painter and poet) was born on 30 May, 1935 in London, U.K., is a painter. Discover Basil King (painter and poet)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?
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Basil King (painter and poet) Net Worth
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Timeline
2020 – Disparate Beasts: Basil King's Beastiary, Part Two, New York: Marsh Hawk Press 2017 – History Now, New York: Marsh Hawk Press 2014 – The Spoken Word/The Painted Hand from Learning to Draw/A History, 104 pages. New York: Marsh Hawk Press 2011 – Learning to Draw/A History, 270 pages, with cover and frontispiece. Cheltenham, UK: Skylight Press 2007 – 77 Beasts: Basil King’s Beastiary, 176 pages, New York: Marsh Hawk Press 2003 – Mirage: A Poem in 22 Sections, 160 pages. New York: Marsh Hawk Press 2001 – Warp Spasm, 116 pages. New York: Spuyten Duyvill 2000 – The Poet, 228 pages. New York: Spuyten Duyvil 1997 – Devotions with Selections from A Painter’s Bestiary, 74 pages. England: Stop Press
King is the subject of “Basil King: MIRAGE” a 22-minute film by Nicole Peyrafitte and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, which premiered at Anthology Film Archives in New York City September 22, 2012.
Since the 1980s, King has been featured in fourteen group exhibits focusing on Black Mountain College, including the Edith Bum Center at Bard College, El Museo Nacional Centre de Arte Reina Sophia, The Hickory Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
In 1973, King received his first solo exhibition at the Grand Rapids Art Museum; this was followed in 1974 with "Visions of a Great Rememberer: Basil King and Allen Ginsberg," an exhibition of ballpoint pen drawings on music paper that he did for Allen Ginsberg's "Visions of the Great Rememberer" at the Museum of Art, University of Kansas. Since then, King has had eight solo shows, including: Kirkland Art Center, The Poetry Project at St. Marks, Granary Books Gallery, The Bowery Poetry Club and, most recently, Poet's House in 2010.
King founded and edited the magazine, Mulch (1970–76) and Mulch Press Books (1972–77). King also taught as an art instructor for most of his career at a variety of colleges including: Cooper Union, Fordham University and Rutgers University.
Since 1959, he has lived in New York, and since 1968 in Brooklyn, where he paints, writes, and works collaboratively with poets providing art for small press publications.
In 1951, at the age of 16, King was admitted to Black Mountain College, where he studied with Esteban Vicente, Joseph Fiore, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley, among others. From 1960 to 1964 King worked as a studio assistant for Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman in New York City.
Basil King (born May 30, 1935) is an American painter and writer, associated with Black Mountain College, where he was a student as a teenager.
Born Basil Herschel Cohen in London in 1935, he came to the United States with his parents in 1947, at which time the family name was changed from Cohen to King.
