Gene Kloss Paintings
by Robert Parsons
and Ashley Rolshoven
Gene Kloss
Smithsonian
Gene Kloss photo
Gene Kloss Biography
Gene said about Taos, "In this country everything lifts the trees, the mountains, the sky."
She was called a "landscape mythic," a "portrait psychologist," and
a Taos Indian once said, "Yes, that is the way it was that night at our house."
Gene Kloss said, "I want the finished print to enable the viewer to see the design,
the subject matter from across the room, at arm's length or under a magnifying glass
also upside-down for satisfactory abstract design."
"There has always been a close alliance between my art and music".
Gene Kloss (Alice Geneva Glasier) was born on July 27, 1903 in Oakland, California.
She married poet Phillips Kloss in 1925 and that year settled in Taos, NM.
She started etching in 1927 and made more than 600 prints.
Gene was called, "one of the most sensitive and sympathetic interpreters of the Southwest."
She often worked from memory. “The method I came [to] use to enable memory to compose etchings was to note details of costume, focus on two or three notes [sic] of the dance that was repeated and directly upon leaving the pueblo to make quick sketches[.] Next day I developed the drawings to completion which it was all fresh. Black and white of etchings is an abstraction of the dances.” (1989 letter from Kloss to R. H. Dick.)
Gene Kloss was elected National Academician
Gene Kloss Museum Collections
Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society Archives
Campbell County Public Library
Denver Art Museum
Desert Caballeros Western Museum
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Frederick R Weisman Art Museum
Great Plains Art Museum
Library of Congress
Mobile Museum of Art
Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia
Pickard Hall University of Missouri
Museum of New Mexico
New York Public Library
Oakland Museum of California
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
Phoenix Art Museum
Print Club of Albany
San Diego Museum of Art
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
The Harwood Museum
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Inc.
Wright Museum of Art
Gene Kloss Exhibitions
Carmel Art Association
Carnegie Institute, International
Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939, 1940
National Academy of Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Phoenix Art Museum
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center
The Harwood Museum of Art
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Whitney Museum of American Art
Gene Kloss Highest Auction Prices
"Indian dance procession in an adobe plaza" Sales Price: $25,880
"SUMMER MORNING ARROYO HONDO" Price: $14,950
"Rio Grande" Price: $14,400
"Corn Dancers Coming" Price $13,000
"October Snow" Price: $12,000
"Blue Peaks" Price: $11,400
"Perhaps She Will Buy" Price: $9,520
"Blue peaks" Price: $9,500
"Women gathering water at a stream" Price: $9,200
"Spring's Around the Corner" Price: $8,750
"Frosty Festoons" Price: $8,400
"October in the Mountains" Price: $8,400
Fine Art prices have risen steadily. Please contact the Gallery for the latest prices and current inventory.
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