Dorothy Stratton King

Dorothy Stratton King (1909 in Worcester, Massachusetts- June 14, 2007, Arlington Virginia) was an American painter and printmaker. She was a founding member of the Washington Printmakers Gallery in Washington, DC. Her work is held by several public collections in the USA.

Early life Dorothy Stratton was born in Worcester and grew up in Sharon, Massachusetts. She began painting when very young.

She moved to Brooklyn, New York and studied figure drawing and painting at the Pratt Institute and took classes at the Brooklyn Museum School. She subsequently took classes in printmaking at the University of California at San Diego.

In the early 1980s Dorothy King moved to McLean, Virginia, where she helped found the Washington Printmakers Gallery in 1985. She became a founding member of the Columbia Pike Artist Studios in Arlington and a member of the Washington Print Club and the Artists Equity Association.

King's prints and paintings have been hung by the World Bank, at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Russia, Long Beach Museum of Art and several U.S. Embassies. Her work is held in the public collections of the Georgetown University Fine Print Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington as well as many private collections.

King died on June 14, 2007, in Arlington, Virginia.