Gerald K. Geerlings

Gerald Kenneth Geerlings (1897-1998) was an American architect, printmaker and author, born in Milwaukee and active in New York and New Canaan, Connecticut. After World War I service he studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a B.Arch. in 1921 and M.Arch. in 1922, then worked for York & Sawyer and Starrett & Van Vleck before opening his own practice in 1926. He studied etching at the Royal College of Art and developed a focused body of interwar architectural intaglio prints and lithographs. His principal subjects were modern American cities, especially New York and Chicago, rendered through elevated viewpoints, nocturnal light, engineering structure and the massing of early skyscrapers. Geerlings returned to printmaking and drawing in the 1970s. His work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, British Museum and other public collections.