Harris Schrank Fine Prints

GERALD GEERLINGS (1897-1998) Where the West Begins (Chicago). Alternative title: Chicago, Opera and News Building Etching, 1932. 195×230 mm; 7 3/4×9 inches. Edition of only 28. Signed, inscribed “1st proof, final state”, titled and dated (June 28, 1932) in pencil, lower margin. Czestochowski 41. A fine impression, in excellent condition. This print was noted in Fine Prints of the Year 1933. Geerlings was trained as an architect; this is evident in the fine structuring of his compositions, which generally adhere to the details of his subject matter, although like Charles Meryon he occasionally made “corrections” of reality in the interest […]

  Gerald Geerlings (1897-1998), Black Magic, etching and aquatint, 1929, signed in pencil lower right, titled and annotated (New York, 1928) lower left margin. Reference: Czestochowski 6, fourth state (of 4), from the edition of 100. In excellent condition, with full margins (slight rippling at outer margin edges), 11 3/4 x 6 1/2, the sheet 17 x 12 1/4 inches. A fine glowing impression, printed on a greenish laid paper with the watermark TG Head & Co. According to the web site of the Philadelphia Museum of Art this etching and aquatint portrays the Warwick Hotel (on West 54th Street and […]