Monument To Space

Print

Mulvane Art Museum

Name/Title

Monument To Space

Entry/Object ID

93-32-1064

Type of Print

Aquatint, Drypoint, Etching

Made/Created

Artist

Kloss, Gene

Date made

1948

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

Image Size: 15" (h) x 10" (v)

Interpretative Labels

Label

(from 2016.Klassics for Kids) Gene Kloss American, 1903-1996 Monument to Space, 1948 drypoint and aquatint This work may depict Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. Gene Kloss was a woman whose given name was Alice Geneva Glasier. She took a man’s name because the work of women artists was rarely taken seriously before the Feminist Movement of the 1970s. Visit the Inspiration Station and read about Lines and Shapes. Do Gene Kloss and Claes Oldenburg use mostly horizontal, vertical or diagonal lines and shapes in their works? What do they communicate?