Gene Kloss Signed 1954 Original Etching/Drypoint Apache Women at the Fiesta

Gene (Alice Geneva) Kloss .(1903-1996)...Apache Women at the Fiesta, edition of 75, 1954 . etching, pencil signed lower right 11" x 14¼". The framed size is 25 1/2"x 29 1/2", the frame is very fine quality. The etching is in mint condition. Gene Kloss is noted as one of the finest printmakers of the 20th century. Jules Sanchez, owner and director of Gallery A in Taos, N.M., provides the following biography of the artist: Her name and style are associated with the Taos Art Colony in New Mexico. Her career spanned 70 years and her work is still actively being sold in the United States. Born Alice Geneva Glasier in 1903, she grew up in Oakland, Calif., and was educated at the University of California, Berkley, graduating in 1924. In 1925, she married the poet Phillips Kloss and shortened her middle name to become Gene Kloss. Visiting Taos, N.M., the same year she began to create the etchings of the northern New Mexico landscape and its people. She settled in Taos in 1945, and during her lifetime, she created approximately 627 limited-edition prints, some watercolors and a few oil paintings. Always pulling her own prints on the press she owned, she exhibited high standards in the creation of her limited-edition prints. She maintained memberships in numerous professional organizations that included the Society of American Etchers, Prairie Print Makers and the New Mexico Art League. Her work is collected by American museums and galleries including the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art in New York City, Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pa., Art Institute of Chicago, New York Public Library, Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., Dallas Museum in Texas, Oakland Museum in California and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. Apache Women at the Fiesta is not easy to find, I have seen a few in the last 20 years. Texas residents 8.25 sales tax. If you have any questions please email me. Thanks for looking.