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04/15/2009
Leighton Shell
Wings of Glory prints
kren,
I have the same question. The signature that appears on the prints looks very similar to the signatures on the sample images listed here. I'm leaning towards them being by this John Berkey.
12/05/2008
kren
Wings of glory prints
I would like information on
these prints (such as, are
they prints by John Berkey)
07/30/2006
carolyn casto
steam ship picture
I have a lg. signed print titled " new orleans steam boat race." does anyone know anything about the origional?
10/09/2005
ArtOrg
John Berkey Gallery Show
The artist has taken many of his fully-realized paintings and set them to music, weaving in and out of the images, panning and zooming across one image only to fade in to another. He created deeply distinctive descriptions of his various works in subject groupings such as American history, space travel and others.
Berkey was born in North Dakota and grew up in South Dakota and Montana before settling in Minnesota. After attending the Minneapolis School of Art and taking various studio jobs, he became a staff artist at the Brown & Bigelow advertising firm for eight years.
During that time, Berkey produced more than 500 calendar images, featuring everything from pastoral scenes to historic tableaus, before turning to freelance illustration in 1963. Berkey is perhaps best known for his science fiction illustrations. Among those attracted to his science-fiction illustrations was the young George Lucas, who commissioned him to work on the pre-production designs for “Star Wars.” Renowned for his robust and impressionistic style, he has created paintings for book covers, movie posters, advertisements and publications such as National Geographic, Life, Time, Sports Afield, the Eddie Bauer Catalog and TV Guide. His images appear on 16 U.S. stamps and he was the illustrator of the “elder Elvis” in the Elvis Presley stamp competition of the early 1990s.
In 2004, Berkey was named to the 104-year-old Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame, which includes Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, Frederick Remington and John James Audubon. He has been nominated by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists for the Chesley Award for Artistic Achievement and has been a guest of honor at a number of science fiction conventions.
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