Penitente Fires, 1939

Not on View

Medium

drypoint and aquatint in black on wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Kloss 1981, no. 359

Accession Number

2015.19.2834

Artists / Makers

Gene Kloss (artist) American, 1903 - 1996

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

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.