Etchings 2008 Cottonwood, River, Field, Garden, Slough 15" x 15"

Cottonwood, River, Field, Garden, Slough

Line etchings, 15" x 15" 2008

Gene Kloss and Stow Wengenroth

Gene Kloss was a serious printmaker who created a body of  627 etchings, many of them evocative drypoints.  She was born Alice Geneva Glasier in 1924 and attended the University of California-Berkeley. She worked for many years in Taos, New Mexico where she died at age 92.  This print is a drypoint called Navajo Canyon Cliffs, 1974. 

Stow Wengenroth was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1906 and died in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1978. He was considered to be one of the best lithographers of the twentieth century.  In his lithographs he focused on shadow and light to create forms of the littoral and interior. This print is Woodland Scene, lithograph 1960