Discipline: Visual Art – photography

B. A. King

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Southborough, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987

B.A. King (2/23/1934-5/22/2017) is a Canadian postwar and contemporary artist and photographer who was born in 1934 in Toronto. He was educated at The Whitney School, The Bancroft School, The Crescent School, The Upper Canada College Preparatory School, St. Andrews College, and Hamilton College. His work has been in solo exhibitions in New York, Massachusetts, London, Montreal, and more and is featured in public collections across North America. King was a trustee of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Hahnemann Hospital, and Cardigan Mountain School as well as a director of Wymann Gordon Co., the Worcester Telegram and Gazette, Kinefac Corporation, Worcester Control Corp., and Guaranty Back and Trust Co. He was a MacDowell Fellow and an honorary member of the Garden Club America. He founded Black Ice Publishers.

Studios

Putnam

B. A. King worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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