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

City Hills 2, 1993

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

Location: Lakewood Middle School, Marysville

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

City Hills 2 is part of artist Kay Buckner's series of paintings that reimagine memories of her childhood in Seattle. She notes "I grew up in Seattle in a house built on an embankment. From our vantage, we could see neighbors' rooftops and far-off urban hills. The panorama was recorded in my first drawings...I still possess a small oil from that early time which depicts our street with its terraces, landmarks and people. These themes re-emerge in City Hills 2 ."

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