Comments on: The Gentle Giant: William King, 1925-2015 https://artcritical.com/2015/03/05/the-gentle-giant-william-king-1925-2015/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Steve Mumford https://artcritical.com/2015/03/05/the-gentle-giant-william-king-1925-2015/#comment-356884 Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:15:00 +0000 https://www.artcritical.com/?p=47306#comment-356884 Great appreciation, David.
I’ve known and loved King’s work for decades, through his Maine/Skowhegan connection to my aunt and uncle, Charles DuBack and Daphne Mumford, friends of King’s and Lois Dodd’s (not to mention Alex Katz, Bernard Langlais, and many more NYC artists who spent summers in Maine).

In addition, the now-defunct famed East Village vegetarian restaurant Angelica’s Kitchen had a King sculpture for years suspended from the rafters.

]]> By: colin ambrose https://artcritical.com/2015/03/05/the-gentle-giant-william-king-1925-2015/#comment-332146 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:29:49 +0000 https://www.artcritical.com/?p=47306#comment-332146 Bill was an easy man to like, his smile brightened my day, for 15 years he was a regular. Mr. King was a hot water customer at Estia, brought his own tea. Didn’t eat much more than toast. He wore his socks rolled up over the cuffs of his jeans at home, ticks bugged him. I’m sad to have lost my friend, however it wasn’t likely that death scared him and he left us so much to remember him by. If you find yourself driving down the Sag Harbor turnpike and come upon the intersection at Clay pit road look up, there’s a few striped bass swimming in the wind, just the way he wanted them to.

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