Grand Canal‚ America
Date1933
Artist
Gerald Kenneth Geerlings
(American printmaker and architect, 1897–1998)
Printer/Printmaker
Frank Arthur Nankivell
(American, born in Australia, engraver and printer, 1869–1959)
MediumDrypoint
Dimensionsplate: 11 15/16 × 8 15/16 in. (30.3 × 22.7 cm)
sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 in. (39.4 × 27.9 cm)
sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 in. (39.4 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Charles Lee Reese, 1940
Object number1940-11.157
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextGeerlings was trained as an architect and began to experiment with printmaking in the late 1920s as art deco skyscrapers rose in American cities. This print records the Electrical Building at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
