Gerald K. Geerlings
1897–1998 · United States
About Gerald K. Geerlings
Gerald K. Geerlings (1897–1998) was an American architect, printmaker, and writer born in Milwaukee. After serving in France during the First World War, he studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1921 and 1922. He worked for York & Sawyer and Starrett & Van Vleck in New York before opening his own architectural practice in 1926.
Between 1927 and 1932 Geerlings produced lithographs and intaglio prints of American cities, using drypoint, etching, aquatint, soft-ground etching, and stone lithography. During the Second World War he devised perspective target maps for the Eighth Air Force and received the Legion of Merit with an oak leaf cluster. After retiring from architecture in 1970, he returned to drawing and lithography, working on views of New York, Connecticut, Paris, England, and Scotland.
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Gerald K. Geerlings (1897–1998) was an American architect, printmaker, and writer born in Milwaukee. After serving in France during the First World War, he studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1921 and 1922. He worked for York & Sawyer and Starrett & Van Vleck in New York before opening his own architectural practice in 1926.
Between 1927 and 1932 Geerlings produced lithographs and intaglio prints of American cities, using drypoint, etching, aquatint, soft-ground etching, and stone lithography. During the Second World War he devised perspective target maps for the Eighth Air Force and received the Legion of Merit with an oak leaf cluster. After retiring from architecture in 1970, he returned to drawing and lithography, working on views of New York, Connecticut, Paris, England, and Scotland.