Original Etching “Apaches A-visiting” [R]

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Gene Kloss (1903-1996)
  • Category: Original Prints
  • Origin: Western Artists
  • Medium: copperplate etching on paper - numbered 30/75
  • Size: 13-3/4” x 11” image;
    22-3/4” x 18-1/2” framed
  • Item # C3598D
  • Price No Longer Available

Alice Geneva Glasier Kloss is a New Mexico legend.  It is fortunate for us that she and her husband chose to visit Taos during their honeymoon and even more fortunate that they chose to stay there.  From the mid-1920s to the mid-1960s, she produced her legacy of copper plate etchings.  Most of them are New Mexico scenes.  For a brief while, they moved to Colorado, where she made etchings of Colorado scenes, but allergies caused them to return to Taos, so the majority of her art focuses on New Mexico.

 

Original Etching “Apaches A-visiting”

Kloss had brought with her on their honeymoon a small etching press and that, along with a larger etching press purchased in Taos, set her career.  She simplified her name to Gene Kloss and over her career, produced over 600 copper plate etchings.  She never worked from photographs but sketched directly at the scene of interest.  She produced what she wanted to paint or etch without regard for financial gain although she did do well in her career. 

 

Gene Kloss (1903-1996) signatureThis etching entitled “Apaches A-visiting” was completed in 1965.  It is signed Gene Kloss and numbered 30/75, illustrating a male with a cowboy hat and two females visiting with each other, thus the origin of the title.  

 

Condition: original condition 

Provenance: from the collection of a gentleman in Colorado Springs

Recommended Reading:  Gene Kloss Etchings with text by Phillips Kloss 

Gene Kloss (1903-1996)
  • Category: Original Prints
  • Origin: Western Artists
  • Medium: copperplate etching on paper - numbered 30/75
  • Size: 13-3/4” x 11” image;
    22-3/4” x 18-1/2” framed
  • Item # C3598D
  • Price No Longer Available

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