Gene Kloss

Gene Kloss
Born Alice Geneva Glasier
(1903-07-27)July 27, 1903
Oakland, California
Died June 24, 1996(1996-06-24) (aged 92)
Taos, New Mexico
Nationality American
Education Perham Nahl
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
California School of Fine Arts
California College of Arts and Crafts
Known for Etching, oil and watercolor painting
Spouse(s) Phillips Kloss
Elected National Academy of Design, Academician (1972)

Gene Kloss was an American artist known today primarily for her many prints of the Western landscape and ceremonies of the Pueblo people she drew entirely from memory.

Early life and Education

She received a Bachelors Degree of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in 1924 and studied at the California School of Fine Arts from 1924-1925.

New Mexico

Kloss began visiting Taos, New Mexico in 1925 with her husband, poet-composer Phillips Kloss, whom she married in 1925. On their honeymoon they visited Phillips' brother in Las Cruces, NM and headed for Santa Fe and Taos with her 60 pound etching press. For the next few years they spent summers in Taos, later moving there full time.

Depression Era

Kloss received widespread recognition and awards during the 1930s. From 1933 to 1944 Kloss was the sole etcher employed by the Public Works of Art Project. Her series of nine New Mexico scenes from that period were reproduced and distributed to public schools across the state. [1] In 1935, she was one of three Taos artists who represented New Mexico at a Paris exhibition called "Three Centuries of Art in the United States". [2]

Solo Exhibitions

Public Collections

References

  1. ↑ Ressler, Susan R. (2003). Women Artists of the American West. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. p. 318. ISBN 078641054X.
  2. ↑ Hulburt, Dory (2009). Gene Kloss : An American Printmaker. Taos, NM: De Teves Publishing Company. p. 2. ISBN 9781604020007.
  3. ↑ Kovinick, Phil; Yoshiki-Kovinick, Marian. An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West. Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 176. ISBN 0292790635.

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