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

Echos, 1992

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

Location: Legislative Building,

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Echos is part of artist Kay Buckner's series of paintings, "New Worlds..." inspired by Washington's modernist landmarks built in the 1920s and 1930s. This piece depicts the bridgeway over Seattle's Ravenna Park, and seeks to capture the mood of the Northwest landscape, as well as the optimism and self-assurance that characterized the designs of that era.

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.