Irving Geis (October 18, 1908 – July 22, 1997) was an American artist who worked closely with biologists.
[1] Geis was born in New York City, and lived in Anderson, South Carolina for a time.
He studied architecture at Georgia Tech from 1925 to 1927, and went on to get a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania in 1929.
[1][2] From there he attended the University of South Carolina from 1932 to 1933, graduating with a degree in design and painting in the midst of the Great Depression.
[1] Geis served as a coauthor and illustrator of many biochemical books that were written by Albert Lehninger and Richard E. Dickerson, as well as the book How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff.