Three trips this summer: 1) To Sag Harbor, where the factory in which a large cohort of young working women licked the brushes they used to paint glow-in-the-dark watch faces. They later died horribly of radium poisoning, their teeth more … Read More
In a folder marked Basil’s dream Baz and Robert Creeley were together, he visiting Creeley’s house, and Creeley had taken him out onto a large veranda or open porch where they stood together looking down into the yard as a … Read More
Baz does Windows! This new series, called Windows, of mixed media on Stonehenge paper (all 40 inches x 26 inches ) and two diptych paintings (mixed media on canvas, combined dimensions 56 inches x 42 inches) testify to some variation … Read More
Cleaning closet and old files, and here emerges a pamphlet with text on Basil’s art by Fielding Dawson, written twenty-five years ago. The pamphlet accompanied “Paintings from the Cards,” an exhibition of Basil King’s work at Steve Clay’s first New York … Read More
Because Basil’s right-side weakness is getting worse, I persuaded him to see a neurologist. His first neurology visit since teenage episodes of seizures that stopped well before he went to Black Mountain in the 50s. And well before there even … Read More
Pushing spring, despite all! There are now twenty-one views of pigeons in Delacroix’s Garden in Basil King’s studio. Winter-spring 2013-2014. Visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/67642740@N08/sets/72157639449256424/ He’s now moving on to a new series “Visiting Delacroix’s Garden” with…images to come. Enjoy!
Look out whippersnappers. An old man is coming, his brushes are loaded, and he’s got birds on the brain! There are many birds on view in his studio in Brooklyn, by invitation, this year. Use this link for … Read More
Baz has been moving across and back from abstract to figures again. There will be pigeon paintings on canvas this winter. For a look at numbers 1 to 8, copy this link into your browser: http://www.flickr.com/photos/67642740@N08/sets/72157639449256424/show/with/11782313344/ These eight are all … Read More