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342:(12 ins x 15 ins or about 30.5 x 38.1 cm) for his studio at Warrandyte. Although this press was "a bit on the small side", by designing for its limitations King could make larger prints. Some years later, he acquired a larger press which "gave him scope to wield a longer, wider brush-mark on the lithographic plate".
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King made two significant decisions about his art. The first was in the late 1940s, when he decided to focus on
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on 23 February 1915. He left school when he was about fifteen and went to work. In 1934, he started studying commercial art at night at the
Working Men's College of Melbourne (which became Melbourne Technical College and later the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)). Later he went to the
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British Council grant for a study tour of printmaking facilities in England. He also visited France, Switzerland, Italy and America, where he visited the Pratt Graphics Centre in New York. Later, in 1974, the Kings visited Europe and also Japan, where one of their daughters
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European drawings that "the drawings are not merely documentary sketches of places visited. Rather they quietly scratch the surface, capturing the rhythm, heart and sensibilities of a location and
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Australian prints. An important exhibition, the Australian Print Survey, curated by Daniel Thomas of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, was shown in all the major Australian cities in 1963–4. By the mid 1960s,
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interiors of caves and rock formations and, using highly sophisticated lithographic techniques, produced his fleeting impressions of ancient
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which transformed colour advertising in the print industry. He was able to make use of this expertise for the rest of his career. In 1939, the year of the highly influential exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art in Melbourne sponsored by the Melbourne
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stages of production and sometimes these stages are years apart and the result of considerable contemplation. This is the mark of an abstractionist who is not prepared to allow pure intuition, emotion or improvisation to determine the end result."
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