Basil King, Russian Novel 2023 Drawing Series: In a new Video

May 2024: Don Yorty sets King’s Russian Novel drawings to music in a beautiful new video.

Yorty writes: “Basil King sketched forty-three faces with charcoal, and as he sketched them, he began to call them his Russian Novel. When Basil introduced them to me and asked if I would set them to music in a video, I looked forward to the project.”  The year was 2023.

View Don Yorty’s blog post here complete with text, video, and additional photographs.

View the video directly here.