Gordon Ertz timeline

Ertz, [Milton] Gordon George

BORN: February 19, 1891 Chicago

DIED: January 9, 1962 Hillsboro, IL[1]

MARRIED: c.1924 Louise Phillips

TRAINING

1913 Chicago Academy of Fine Arts

Self taught

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

1916 Cover illustrations, The Inland Printer[2]

1917 Illustrated The Heart-Cry of the Celtic Maid, by Sharmel Iris

1921 Book illustrations including Green Wings by Dorothy Leeming (Chicago: Peterson Linotyping), and Echos, a book of poetry by Donald Robertson

1936 Map illustration, David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Stanford University[3]

[1]Information courtesy of Dougls A. Anderson, found in https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2021/09/20/the-art-of-gordon-ertz/, accessed 11/9/2025.

[2]He illustrated several covers for the magazine.

[3]Chicago, 1936. Western Litho. and Printing. Co. Racine, Wis. Chromolithograph.