Dorothy Stratton King (1909 in Worcester, Massachusetts- June 14, 2007, Arlington Virginia) was an American painter and printmaker.
[1] In 1942 she had moved to Connecticut to live with her parents, where she helped her father deliver telegrams to families of soldiers killed in World War II.
She painted "Tom and Jerry" cartoon cells at Warner Brothers, then worked in Hollywood, designing costumes and film sets.
She studied with artist Rico Lebrun at the University of California, Los Angeles, and then had her first major one-woman show at the Pasadena Museum of Art in 1959.
[3] In the early 1980s Dorothy King moved to McLean, Virginia, where she helped found the Washington Printmakers Gallery in 1985.