Gene Kloss Etching "Domingo Basket Dance," 1973

Item Details

Gene Kloss (New Mexico/California, 1903 – 1996)
Domingo Basket Dance, 1973
Etching with drypoint on paper
Signed to the lower right
Artist proof

Gene Kloss, born Alice Geneva Glasier in 1903 in Oakland, California, was a major 20th-century printmaker. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley, under Perham Nahl who immediately recognized her talent for etching. After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts, she went on to study at the California School of Fine Arts. In 1925, upon marrying writer Phillips Kloss, she changed her name believing it would serve her better in the art world. That same year the couple first visited Taos, New Mexico which immediately became her artistic home. From then on they divided their time between Berkeley and Taos, traveling with a printing press, and finally in 1945 made Taos their permanent home. Though Kloss also worked as a painter in watercolor and oils, it is her dramatic etchings of New Mexico for which she is best known. Her work resides in the collections of many prominent institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Carnegie Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, New York Public Library, San Francisco Museum of Art, the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, and more.

Condition

- minor tape remnants to the upper corners of the sheet.

Dimensions

- measures sheet; plate mark measures 15.0" W x 12.0" H.

Item #

ITMGB79747