Gene
Kloss was born in Oakland, California in 1903. She graduated
from the University of California at Berkeley in 1924. It was
there that she was first introduced to and was intrigued by the
printmaking process. She also studied at the California School
of Fine Arts from 1924-1925. She was to become a master
printmaker. She was also accomplished oil and watercolor artist.
After marrying Phillip Kloss in 1925, she began visiting Taos,
New Mexico. Throughout her life Kloss experimented with the
copper-plate printing press. She and her husband would spend the
majority of the year in Taos, wintering in Berkeley, until they
moved there permanently 1945. She produced over 600 individual
works using her own very distinctive shading and composition
techniques.