Cecil (Harmsworth) King - Work in Collections, References and external links

Newspaper proprietor, born in Totteridge, Hertfordshire, SE England, UK, the nephew of the Harmsworth brothers. He joined the Daily Mirror in 1926, and became chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers Ltd and Sunday Pictorial Newspapers Ltd (1951–63), and chairman of the International Publishing Corporation and Reed Paper Group (1963–8).

Born Rathdrum, County Wicklow, Ireland, King was largely self-taught as an artist. He had his first one-man show in 1959, but worked as a businessman and did not become a full-time artist until 1964.

Work in Collections

Dublin City University: Thrust The Arts Council of Northern Ireland: Berlin Painting The Arts Council of Ireland: Berlin Painting 21 (1970) Traverse, '84 (1984) The National University of Ireland, Galway: Untitled tapestry (1974) Trinity College, Dublin: Berlin Painting (1970) Berlin Painting (1971) The Tate, London The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin The Government Art Collection, UK

References and external links

Aosdána biographical note David Scott (1989), The modern art collection, Trinity College Dublin. Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press.