Title- Adobes in The Snow
Artist- Gene Kloss
Signed- lower right
Year- not dated
Medium- etching, ed 75
Size- 8 x 11.5

Provenance- Private estate, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Biography

Gene Kloss (1903-1996) was born in Oakland, California and grew up in the Bay Area. She attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she studied with Perham Nahl, her instructor in life class and anatomy, who also gave a course in etching. Amazed by the first print she pulled from the press, Nahl predicted she would be an etcher.

Kloss spent two additional years of study at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. In 1925 she married Phillips Kloss, a poet, and they made a honeymoon journey to New Mexico. It was a decisive point in Kloss’s career, initiating a lifelong fascination with the the landscape of the Southwest and the Native American peoples who inhabited the region.

Kloss was quoted, “An artist must keep in close contact with nature and man’s fundamental reliance on nature in order to produce a significant body of work.” (Bradley, Gene Kloss: Graphic Works from Six Decades, 1984)

Information above is from the Smithsonian American Art Museum website: https://americanart.si.edu/artist/gene-klos-2664

9/9/22 UPDATE- we have had many people ask about the lines in the images. It is difficult to photograph art work behind glazing. The lines you see are a reflection of the ceiling where we were photographing. There are no wrinkles or creasing in the art work itself.

11.5 x 8 x 1 in

4 lb