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(1903-1996)
Gene Kloss (born Alice Geneva Glasier) had already established the beginnings of a distinguished art career in her native California when she first visited Taos on her honeymoon in 1925. She reportedly said she considered herself a New Mexican from that day forth.A stalwart of the Taos art colony, she created paintings, watercolors and a prodigious number of etchings and aquatints—more than 625 in a seventy-year career. She earned the respect of all the members of the occasionally contentious Taos Society of Artists as well as the regard of her peers nationally, who elected her to Associate Membership in the prestigious National Academy of Design in 1950 and Full Membership in 1972—the first American woman printmaker ever to be so honored.
She is known today primarily for her many highly accomplished and innovative prints of the Western landscape and particularly of the lives and ceremonies of the many Pueblo people whom she befriended and esteemed.
She is now universally considered one of the major printmakers of the 20th Century. Her work graces scores of major private collections here and abroad as well as the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Institution, The Carnegie Institute, The San Francisco Museum of Art, The Library of Congress and the National Academy of Design.
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Gallery A, the longest-continuously-operating gallery in Taos, (and probably New Mexico) closed its doors at the beginning of 2007 upon the retirement of the owners, Gene and Jules Sanchez. Mary L. Sanchez, Gene Sanchez’s mother and a close friend of Gene Kloss, opened Gallery A in 1960 as a venue for New Mexico artists—Gene Kloss among them--and Ms. Kloss showed her work there exclusively for more than 25 years .Gallery A and Gene Kloss have been synonymous in many peoples’ minds for the last forty-four years. |
| We at Taos Fine Art are grateful for the confidence that Gene and Jules Sanchez have placed in us by choosing us to “adopt” Gallery A’s marvelous collection of Gene Kloss material. They have been dedicated and attentive stewards of her work for many, many years and we are honored and humbled by the responsibility they have passed on to us. We will do our best to continue the tradition of care and professionalism they have established. We are looking forward with enthusiasm to the appearance of the new Gene Kloss Catalogue Raisonne which Gene Sanchez has been working on for quite a long time. It will be the definitive work on this very important and deserving artist for many decades to come. |
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The Bishop's
Apricot SOLD |
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Desert Drama Study |
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Conclave SOLD |
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Foot Race Beginning |
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Indian Maidens |  |
In the Feather Dance |
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Road to Hondo |  |
Past War Dance |
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Spring in Taos Canyon SOLD |
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Winters Snow's Finale |
 Near Wind and Water Point |
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A Bygone Day in Sante Fe |  |
A Morning in April |
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Adobes in the Snow SOLD |
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All Souls Day Offering |
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Along the Roaring Fork |  |
Blessings on San Felipe Day |
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Buffalo Dance Maiden |  |
Buttes of Lukachukai |
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California Coast |  |
Carding Wool |
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Ceremonial Basket |  |
Chance Encounter |
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Cherry Blossom Time II |  |
Christmas Eve Fires |
 Comanche Dance– Ildefonso Pueblo |
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Corn Dance Maiden |  |
Corn Dancers Coming |
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Corn Husking Time |  |
Corn Husking Taos Pueblo |
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Courtyard in Chimayo |
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Dancers Will Bring Rain |
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December Afternoon |  |
Deer Dance |
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Desert Drama SOLD |
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Domingo Basket Dance |
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End of the Dance-Cochiti |  |
Eve of the Green Corn Ceremony |
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Far Across the Rio Grande |  |
Feather Dancer |
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February in the San Juans SOLD |
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Ghost City |
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Horses on a Snowy Hill |  |
Indian Jesters Making Dust |
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Indian Ovens |  |
Indian Summer |
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January Evening |  |
Jesters Cooling Off |
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The Journey |  |
Kerasan Dancers |
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Lake Above Ophir |  |
Late Sunlight on the
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Magpies and Redtailed Hawk |  |
Mine and Mountain Sketch |
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Moonlight Circle Dance SOLD |
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Morning at the Pueblo |
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Navajo Canyon Cliffs |  |
Noonday Shadows |
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Of Taos and Apache Lineage |  |
Old Mesilla |
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Old Pinion Tree |  |
On Christmas Day |
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On the Road to Latir Lakes |  |
Open Range |
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Our House and Taos Mountain |  |
Peaks of Paonia SOLD |
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Penetente Easter |  |
Penitentes by Moonlight |
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Pine and Peak |  |
Prelude to the Gift of Dance |
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Processional New Mexico Church |  |
Processional Taos SOLD |
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Prospectors Palace |  |
Pueblo Dancer |
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Pueblo Feather Dance |  |
Pueblo Leader |
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Quoth the Raven |  |
Rain Dance Beginnig SOLD |
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Rain in Taos Valley (aka Cloud Drama) SOLD |
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Red Mountain Relic |
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Return of the Pack Train |  |
Return of the Woodgatherers |
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Return of the Processional |  |
Riders at Sundown |
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Riding by Moonlight |  |
The Rio Grande at Embudo |
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Rocky Crest |  |
Rocky Mountain Valley |
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Rocky Mountain Village |
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Saints Day Processional SOLD |
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San Francisco Yacht Harbor |  |
Shadowed Buttes |
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Singers Over the Bridge |  |
Snow on the Dalles Divide |
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Song of the Buffalo Hunt |  |
Song of Creation |
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Strength from the Sea |  |
Stuarolite Ledge Above Taos |
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Storm Clouds Over Vallecito |  |
Summer Evening in New Mexico |
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Summer Flower |  |
Sundown |
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Taos Pueblo (Untitled) SOLD |
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Taos Valley Winter |
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To a Wedding in North House |
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To the Corral |
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Tres Orejas SOLD |
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Tribute to the Earth |
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Trip to Town |  |
Turtle Dance at Sunrise |
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Victory Dance Motif |  |
Village in the Snow |
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Village Plaza New Mexico SOLD |
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The Visitors Tale |
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Wars End |  |
Watching a Winter Dance |
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Watching the Clowns at Old Chochiti |  |
The Wheat Field |
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Where Ruby Silver is Found |  |
Whisper Haunted Cliff Cave |
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Windcarved |  |
Winter Solstice Dance |
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Years Ago in Arroyo Seco SOLD |
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Yesteryear in Talpa SOLD |
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You Can Lead a Horse to Water |  |
Young Navajo Mother |
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