University of Wisconsin at Madison, B.S. in Art Education,1941
School for American Craftsmen, Alfred, NY, 1947-1949
Hollowware:
Designer-Craftsmen U.S.A. Competition, 1953. 2nd place award
St. Paul Fiber, Clay Metal Exhibition, 1957. 1st place award
Sterling Silversmith Guild Competition, 1957. 3rd place award
Sterling Silversmith Guild Competition, 1958. 2nd place award
Flatware:
Wichita Decorative Arts Show, 1954. 1st place award
Massachusetts Crafts Today, 1959. 1st place award
Providence Arts Festival, 1961. 1st place award
Jewelry:
Rochester Jewelry and Related Objects Exhibition, 1957. 1st place award
Massachusetts Crafts Today, 1959. 1st place award
Massachusetts Crafts Today, 1961 1st place award
Dallas Museum of Art, Jewel Stern American Silver Collection
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
Minnesota Museum of American Art
Museum of Arts and Design, NYC
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
Yale University Art Gallery
Exhibited at Brussels World's Fair, 1958.
Exhibited at New York's World's Fair, 1963-4.
The Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Arts and Design) commissioned
an enamel box for its permanent collection, 1960.
Exhibited in Smithsonian USIA Exhibition that toured European countries, 1959.
"Knife/Fork/Spoon," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1951.
"Silver Heirlooms of Today and Tomorrow," Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1951.
"Craftsmen in a Changing World," Museum of Contemporary Crafts, 1956.
"Objects: USA," Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, 1969. Toured US and Europe.
"Excellence of the Object," American Craftsmen's Council, 1969.
"Forms in Metal, 275 Years of Metalsmithing in America," Finch College Museum of Art, 1975.
"Design Since 1945," Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983.
"Design 1935-65: What Modern Was," Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, 1991. Toured US and Canada.
"Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design," Dallas Art Museum and Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2005-6. Included a national tour.
"Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design," Museum of Arts and Design, 2011-12 and Rochester University Memorial Art Gallery, 2012.
"A Changing Reflection: Silver, Metalwork, and Jewelry in the 19th-21st Centuries," RISD Museum, 2017-2025.
"Knife/Fork/Spoon" exhibit at Walker Art Center, featuring Contour, 1951
Smithsonian silver exhibit with Carafe on left and Celestial Centerpiece in center, 2006
Barquist, David L. “Modernism in American Silver.” American Craft, Jun/Jul 2006.
Falino, Jeannine, and Gerald W.R. Wald, editors. Silver of the Americas, 1600-2000: American Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2007.
Falino, Jeannine and Jennifer Scanlan. Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design. Harry N. Abrams, 2011.
Gordon, John Stuart, editor. A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery 1920-1950. Yale University Press, 2011.
King, Janna. “Robert J. King: Pioneer of Midcentury Modern Silver Design.” Silver Magazine, Sept/Oct 2016, pp. 14–23.
Singer, Patricia F. “International Silver Company Shines Once More.” Connecticut Explored, Winter 2015/16, https://www.ctexplored.org/international-silver-company-shines-once-more/.
Stern, Jewel, et al., editors. Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design. Yale University Press, 2005.
Website with compiled sources on International Silver and other Meriden design: https://www.artdesigncafe.com/historical-design-meriden
