Artwork copyright Kay Lamoreux Buckner. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Hopscotch, 2002

Kay Lamoreux Buckner
(American, born 1935, died 2012)

Location: Sharpstein Elementary School, Walla Walla

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Hopscotch is part of artist Kay Buckner's series of paintings that recreate memories of her childhood in Seattle. She describes how many of the houses in her old residential neighborhood were converted from small shops. She notes "as these 'store-front' houses had no yards, their broad sidewalks became playgrounds for the children who lived in them. The most memorable sidewalk game played there was hopscotch, a diversion which required only a stick of chalk, a stone, and a few willing participants."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Walla Walla School District.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Northwest artist Kay Lamoreux Buckner (1935-2012) created figurative paintings and drawings with rich psychological imagery. In the 1990s she began to create textile artworks.

Kay Lamoreux Buckner was born and raised in Seattle. She graduated from Lincoln High School, the University of Washington (Bachelor of Art degree in Fine Art, 1958), and Claremont Graduate School in California (Master of Fine Art degree in painting, 1961). Kay was awarded the Rotary Award for Painting at The Northwest Arts and Crafts Fair (1955) in Bellevue, and she was included in Seattle Art Museum's 42nd Annual Juried Exhibition of Northwest Artists (1956). She moved to Eugene, Oregon in 1962, where she had a studio for the rest of her life and taught at the University of Oregon. The Frye Art Museum in Seattle held a solo exhibition of her paintings in 1979.