Monument to Space

1948

Gene Kloss

Artist, American, 1903 - 1996

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint and aquatint in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.24 × 37.94 cm (9 15/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 28.42 × 44.61 cm (11 3/16 × 17 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.2837

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kloss 1981, no. 425

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, Taos, New Mexico; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

  • Gene Kloss: Images of the American Southwest, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988-1989

2024

  • "American Modernism. Borderlands: Expanded Visions of the Southwest," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 15, 2024–January 10, 2025.

Bibliography

1981

  • Kloss, Phillips. Gene Kloss Etchings. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sunstone Press, 1981, p. 187, no. 425.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Monument to Space; lower right in graphite: Gene Kloss; lower right corner in graphite: Ed 35 1948

Watermarks

WHATMAN 1955

Wikidata ID

Q77012144

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