Alice Geneva "Gene" Kloss (née Glasier; July 27, 1903 – June 24, 1996) was an American artist known today primarily for her many prints of the Western landscape and ceremonies of the Pueblo people she drew entirely from memory.
[2] In 1921 she began her studies in the Department of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, where she perfected her skills as a painter under Ray Boynton and was first introduced to printmaking by the renowned etcher, Perham Wilhelm Nahl.
Gene sketched and exhibited with the large art colony in Carmel-by-the Sea, California, and until 1938 periodically rented a cottage there for several months in the summer.
Her first major one-person exhibition, which included almost 100 etchings, oils, watercolors, block prints and monotypes, at the Berkeley League of Fine Arts in March 1926 was so popular that it was extended for a month.
Prior to that time the couple habitually spent 2 to 4 months annually at the Taos art colony and lived the remainder of each year at the Kloss family home, either in Oakland or Berkeley, with visits to Carmel.
[8] Beginning in the mid-1930s Gene began to exhibit with some frequency in the Midwest and on the East Coast, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City,[9] as well as in the Southwest.