Artwork copyright Kay Lamoreux Buckner. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Queen Anne's Lace, 1991

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

Location: Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Artist Kay Buckner's painting Queen Anne's Lace captures the modernist architecture of an elevated roadway on Queen Anne Hill, and the mood and atmosphere of the Seattle landscape. Inspired by memories of her childhood she notes: "Seattle's mist has a character as distinct as the city's bridges and its stratified neighborhoods."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Department of Corrections.

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.