Name/Title
Monument To SpaceEntry/Object ID
93-32-1064Type of Print
Aquatint, Drypoint, EtchingMade/Created
Date made
1948Time Period
20th CenturyDimensions
Dimension Description
Mat dimensionsHeight
18 inWidth
24 inDimension Description
Image dimensionsHeight
10 inWidth
15 inInterpretative 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?