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

Rainbow's End, 1994

Kay Lamoreux Buckner
American (born 1935, died 2012)

Location: Clarkston Heights Elementary, Clarkston

About the Artwork

Rainbow's End is part of artist Kay Lamoreux Buckner's body of paintings that feature imagery of the Pacific Northwest, and explore the relationship between natural forms and man-made structures. She notes, "old bridges were of particular interest to me because of their distinctive styles and the manner in which they defined landscapes...for Rainbow's End I used a rainbow arch bridge (a popular engineering design of the 1920s) because it harmonized with natural forms and echoed the gesture of the kneeling figure."

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