This is a virtual event via Zoom hosted by Pucker Gallery.
This event will be recorded and uploaded to our YouTube channel.
Join us Saturday, 31 January 2026 at 10:30AM ET for a conversation on the work of late Pucker Gallery artist Tony King (1934 - 2017).
This conversation will be an opportunity to both honor and explore the spirit of a unique artist, colleague, and friend. Tony's many lives and interests served to enrich his discreet love of the world and the people around him.
Together with:
Bruce King - Tony King's son
Mara Williams - Brattleboro Museum Curator Emerita
Dr. Carl Herbert - Gallery Associate
Bernard Pucker – Gallery Director
The exhibition A Singular Journey: Tribute to Tony King will be on view at Pucker Gallery 31 January through 8 March 2026.
About the Artist...
Acclaimed photographer Tony King was born in Canada and held dual Canadian/American citizenship. He received a Bachelor’s degree in French Literature and International Relations from Hamilton College and later studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. King cast his thoughtful eye on a wide range of subjects and places and created photographs with rare honesty and grace. Always inspired by the natural world, he spent his life telling stories in words and photographs. His images have illustrated numerous books, from children's books to ones about New England and Robert Frost poetry. His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Boston Public Library, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Mr. King, who died May 2017, resided in Southborough, Massachusetts, and Kennebunkport, Maine. His art has been exhibited by Pucker Gallery since 1998.
About Our Panelists...
Mara Williams assumed Emerita status in 2021, after curating exhibits at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for thirty-three years. Her area of expertise is modern and contemporary art. Recent solo exhibitions include: Gathering Light: The Art of Stephen Hannock; Wolf Kahn— Landscape of Light; Secrets by Gloria Garfinkel; Andy Warhol—Selections from the Jon Gould Collection. Group shows have included the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Janet Fish, Mary Frank, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Maya Lin, James McGarrell, David Nash, Robert Rauschenberg, Ursula von Ridingsvard, Michael Singer, Tseng Kwong Chi, and Barbara Zucker, as well as a host of regional and emerging talent.
Dr. Carl Herbert is a fourth-generation physician whose career has been devoted to helping infertility patients overcome a wide spectrum of obstacles to create their families. Early in his career he participated in the founding of one of the first eIVF centers in the United States. For more than forty years, Dr. Herbert has contributed to the growth and development of assisted reproductive technologies, continually implementing the evolving techniques and optimizing their clinical applications for care. The ambiguity of a socially awkward accolade, “You got me pregnant!”, has become a recurrent reward, both humorous and joyful. By serendipity, Dr. Herbert walked into Pucker Gallery for the first time in 1985 when visiting Boston for a medical conference. From this point on, his nascent interest in art grew under the generous tutelage and encouragement of Mr. Pucker. A close personal friendship evolved as they visited artists and exhibitions around the world; exchanged thoughts on the experience and intrinsic value that art, in all its many forms, can provide individuals and society; and shared writings which illuminated these principles.
Bernie Pucker is the director of Pucker Gallery, which he founded with his wife, Sue, on Boston's historic Newbury Street in 1967. Pucker Gallery represents over fifty artists from around the world, presenting approximately ten exhibitions annually, often paired with artist talks, virtual “WebinARTs,” and Gallery receptions. Bernie is currently a Board Member at the Japan Society, Boston, and the Jewish Publication Society. He also serves on the Leadership Council for Facing History and Ourselves as well as the Artistic Advisory Board for the Terezin Music Foundation. Previously, he has served as President of Solomon Schechter Day School, President of the Newbury Street League, and Board Member for the Friends of Copley Square and The Unity Project, among others. Bernie received his MA in Modern Jewish History from Brandeis University and his BA in History and English Literature from Columbia College.