Title
Bisbee, Arizona
Artist
Year
1925
Technique
etching
Image Size
8 7/8 x 6 7/8" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
not editioned, proofs only - RARE
Annotations
titled in pencil, lower left
Reference
Sanchez/Kloss 67; illustrated: volume 1, page 46
Paper
antique-white laid
State
i/i
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
20311
Price
SOLD
Description
A 1925 etching by Kloss of a street in Bisbee, Arizona. The dome of the Pythian Castle is in the background. There is no known edition of this etching. Annie Larkin, Curator at the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum speculates: "Looking at the positioning of the Pythian Castle in the image, it appears to be from Review Alley, which connects to Brewery Gulch. The buildings that are shown in this image have been gone for decades. The part of the image that threw me off a bit was the footbridge. I had not remembered seeing it in an image. I looked at one of my 1910s photos under magnification and spotted the footbridge, as well as a tree growing behind it. The drawing is looking down the Alley looking south." Gene and Phil Kloss traveled to the Southwest on their "wedding trip" in May of 1925. Kloss comments in a letter to Robert White in 1994: "We set out in a Chevrolet touring car with close-down top, fabric tires carrying equipment, clothes, etching press weighing 60 pounds, oil and watercolor materials, easel, the load covered by a heavy oiled canvas." Kloss did 40 etchings on this trip in 1925, only one (Desert Rhythm) was editioned at 25. She did one more Southwest image on this return trip to California, an etching, "Catalina Mountains, Tucson," done in early 1926.