Penitente Fires
1939
Artist, American, 1903 - 1996

Artwork overview
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Medium
drypoint and aquatint in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 27.78 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
sheet: 33.66 × 43.18 cm (13 1/4 × 17 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.2834
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Catalogue Raisonné
Kloss 1981, no. 359
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
Bibliography
1981
Kloss, Phillips. Gene Kloss Etchings. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sunstone Press, 1981, pp. 30-31, 185, no. 359.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: Penitente Fires Ed 50; lower right in graphite: Gene Kloss; lower left corner in graphite: 7; lower right corner in graphite: 1939 Ed. 50
Watermarks
J WHATMAN
Wikidata ID
Q77012141