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Bonnie Bronson

American painter and sculptor

University of Kansas
University of Oregon
Portland Art Museum School

Spouse

Lee Kelly

(m. 1961⁠–⁠1990)

Children1Websitebonniebronsonart.com

Bonnie Bronson (1940–1990)^[1] was an American painter and sculptor and one of Portland, Oregon's most prominent artists during the 1970s–1980s.^[1] Randal Davis said that her work showed "an abiding love for the sheer beauty of materials and a fascination with unusual structures and systems."^[2]

Bronson was born in Portland in 1940, and attended the University of Kansas, the University of Oregon, and the Portland Art Museum School.^[3] She married sculptor Lee Kelly in 1961.^[2] After their Portland home and studio were heavily damaged in the Columbus Day Storm of 1962, they purchased a former dairy farm outside of Oregon City, where they spent the rest of their lives. They had one child together Jason who died of leukemia in 1978.^[3] In 1990, Bronson died at age 50 in a mountaineering accident on Mazama Glacier on Mount Adams, Washington.^[3] An award in her name, the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship, is presented to one Pacific Northwest artist each year.^[4]

Works

Tree of Life (1964), with Lee Kelly
Leland I (1975), with Lee Kelly

References

^ ^a ^b Purdy, Lloyd (December 5, 2010). "Featured at Winestock – Bonnie Bronson: Grids". Historic Downtown Oregon City. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
^ ^a ^b Davis, Randal. Bonnie Bronson Works 1960-1990 (PDF). p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
^ ^a ^b ^c Bonnie Bronson Works 1960-1990 (PDF). pp. 36–37. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
^ "Celebrating Bonnie Bronson and her art". The Oregonian. September 17, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2014.