Gene Loving lived and worked in the New Orleans Vieux Carré (French for Old Quarter), also known as the French Quarter or just "The Quarter"; first in a courtyard on Chartes Street, and later (in the 1950's) in a "garret" all the way up in an iron-grillwork-galleried building on St. Philip Street. He was originally from Round Rock, Texas, where his father was a sheriff of the "Old West", who as a boy saw outlaw Sam Bass gunned down. One of his two brothers was Vander Loving: internationally celebrated cabaret star in the 1930's, and famous circus empresario, after a fall from his tightrope.

Gene worked in the print mediums of etchings and serographs (silk screenings). His etching press was an antique that had been used to print money at the United States Mint, c. early 1800's. It was work to pull etchings on it. He sold his etchings from French Quarter galleries; one of them, Breckenridge Gallery, was where Pirates Alley and Cabildo Alley come together. The price: generally $15. Gene also sold his work outside in Pirates Alley. And, he was active in the New Orleans art world. St. Louis Cathedral used a Loving etching of the Cathedral to print the cover of programs for its masses.

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