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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 279

Gene Kloss “Cottonwoods and Adobe” Drypoint

Estimate: $700 - $1,400
Starting Bid
$400

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Signed lower right. 

 

Image: 7" Tall x 8 1/2" Wide

Frame: 14 1/4" Tall x 19 1/4" Wide 

 

Condition: Toning to the print and matboard. Water staining to the lower left corner of the matboard, the print appears to be unaffected. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Gene Kloss (1903-1996) was born Alice Geneva Glasier in Oakland, California, and learned etching at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with honors in 1924. The following year she married the poet and composer Phillips Kloss, began signing her work Gene Kloss, and on their honeymoon camped in Taos, New Mexico, beginning a connection with the place that shaped the rest of her working life. For decades the couple divided the year between Berkeley and Taos before settling there permanently in 1953.

Kloss became one of the defining printmakers of the American Southwest, working in etching, aquatint and above all drypoint, and often combining several techniques on a single plate. Her subjects were the land around Taos and the life of its Pueblo and Hispanic communities: adobe churches, snow on the Sangre de Cristo range, ceremonial dances and the old village roads. During the Depression she made prints for the Public Works of Art Project and the WPA. "Cottonwoods and Adobe" takes up two of her constant subjects, the cottonwoods of the Taos valley and its adobe architecture.

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