The Sunday Olympian’s Looking Back theme for 2024 was Many Voices, celebrating our diverse and rich history. Delbert “Del” McBride, shown here, was a long-time curator of the State Capital Museum as well as an artist. He and his brother Bud McBride, and Bud’s long-term partner Richard Schneider, owned the Klee Wyk studio in the Nisqually Valley. Del’s artwork was recently featured in a book and exhibit, The Lavender Palette: Gay Culture and the Art of Washington State.
Daily Olympian photo, June 1966, Courtesy State Capital Museum Collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1986.43.66.6.19.2.35A
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2024