Monument to Space, 1948

drypoint and aquatint in black on wove paper

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.)

Kloss 1981, no. 425

2015.19.2837

Gene Kloss (artist) American, 1903 - 1996

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

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art

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.

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