Gene Kloss

Gene Kloss received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California in 1924. She studied at the California School of Fine Arts 1924-25, becoming a summer visitor to Taos, New Mexico in 1925 while living in Oakland. In 1929, she became a permanent resident of Taos. She began winning awards in the 1930’s, with one-artist museum shows beginning in the 1950s. Her work was included in “Fine Prints of the Year” and “100 Best Prints of the Year.” In 1938, her work was exhibited in Paris as a leading New Mexico artist along with Blumenschein, O’Keeffe, and Sloan. Her prints of New Mexico landscape and genre scenes are her most popular, displaying a sensitive simplicity with sharp contrasts in tonality to emphasize the immensity of the West.