California Coast, Mendocino County, California

Gene Kloss

In 1936, during the Great Depression, the Klosses were spending time between their home in Northern California and their adopted home in Taos, New Mexico where she worked with the WPA. Gene did a number of intaglios up and down the California coast. She commented in her book "Gene Kloss Etchings":

"The northern California coast has many a bleak little harbor unspoiled by commercial development, many a bleak promontory untouched by civilization...Behind the bleakness in the coast hills grow...Sequoia sempervirens, the tallest and oldest trees in the world, their fragrant leaf-fronds precipitating fog during the rainless summers, always cool and lush, and you can hear the song of the russet-backed thrush."

This Pacific ocean inlet is located in Mendocino County, north of San Francisco, above Sonoma County.