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. 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. More information...
According to PR-model, basilking.net is ranked 3,378,484th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 1,808,929th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before basilking-marthaking.com and after interdominion.com.au in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
