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

Hollyhocks, 1994

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

Location: Summit Valley Elementary, Addy

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Hollyhocks is part of a series of paintings by artist Kay Buckner created for her solo exhibition "Working Northwest" at the University of Portland in Oregon. She notes that the series focused on "gestural figures in Pacific Northwest settings: laborers, gardeners and crafters at work in familiar landscapes. Family stories and personal memories served as inspiration."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Summit Valley 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.