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Gene Kloss studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Bought a two dollar book on etching, taught herself. She and her husband, the poet Phillips Kloss, came to Taos in 1925. The landscape and the people of New Mexico became her subject matter. Elected to the National Academy of Design. Noted especially for her etchings. For the first Public Works of Art Project, did nine aquatint etchings, 270 prints. For the WPA Art Project under Russell Vernon Hunter, did oils and watercolors as well as etchings.
From: Jacqueline Hoefer, A More Abundant Life: New Deal Artists and Public Art in New Mexico (Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2003), p. 108.
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