Bonnie Bronson (1940–1990) was an American painter and sculptor and one of Portland, Oregon's most prominent artists during the 1970s–1980s. Randal Davis said that her work showed "an abiding love for the sheer beauty of materials and a fascination with unusual structures and systems." Bronson was born in Portland in 1940, and attended the University of Kansas, the University of Oregon, and the Portland Art Museum School. She married sculptor Lee Kelly in 1961. 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. In 1990, Bronson died at age 50 in a mountaineering accident on Mazama Glacier on Mount Adams, Washington. An award in her name, the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship, is presented to one Pacific Northwest artist each year. Works Tree of Life (1964), with Lee Kelly Leland I (1975), with Lee Kelly References External links Bronson's Legacy Lives On, Oregon Public Broadcasting 1940 births 1990 deaths 20th-century American painters 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American women artists Artists from Portland, Oregon Pacific Northwest College of Art alumni Painters from Oregon Sculptors from Oregon University of Kansas alumni University of Oregon alumni