Charles Geer

Charles H. Geer (August 25, 1922 – December 7, 2008) was an American illustrator and author. He grew up on Long Island, New York, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and then served in the United States Navy during World War II. Following the war he attended art school at the Pratt Institute.

Geer illustrated many children’s books and wrote and illustrated two of his own. He also designed numerous book jackets.

Many of the buildings in his illustrations feature Second Empire architecture, with their characteristic Mansard roofs.

The illustrator lived until his death in 2008 in Rockland, Maine, where he enjoyed sailing and painting watercolors. Over the years he built several boats.

Books illustrated by Charles Geer

• Mystery at Redtop Hill, by Marjory Schwalje, 1965
• The Mad Scientists' Club, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The Big Kerplop, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The Big Chunk of Ice, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald, by Clifford B. Hicks
• Miss Pickerell and the War of the Computers, by Dora F. Pantell
• Miss Pickerell and the Lost World, by Dora F. Pantell
• Wild Geese Flying, by Cornelia Meigs
• McNulty's Holiday, by Rutherford Montgomery
• Sauncey and Mr. King’s Gallery, by Clara Ann Simmons
• The Biggest (and Best) Flag That Ever Flew, by Rebecca C. Jones, 1988
• The Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower, by Arthur J. Beckhard, 1956 ^[1]
• Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat
• Sandro's Battle, by David Scott Daniell, 1962 (jacket only)
• The Pipe Organ in the Parlour, by Lilla Stirling, 1960
• The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald, by Clifford B. Hicks

Books authored by Charles Geer

• Dexter and the Deer Lake Mystery (1965)
• Soot Devil (1971)
• The Pipe Organ in the Parlour (also by Lilla Stirling, 1960)

References

External links

• Happy 85th, Charles Geer! (Illustrator, "The Mad Scientists' Club" by Bertrand Brinley)
• familysearch.org — U.S. Social Security Death Index for Charles H Geer
• Works by Charles Geer at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Charles Geer at Internet Archive