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Welcome to the most extensive fan website of
JOHN BERKEY Artwork
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A SURPRISE FIND:
Two Berkey Columbus Puzzles!!
See them on the Berkey Puzzle Page
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Berkey's Promotional Flyer
The 2 Berkey Art Books
1994 Painted Space 2003 Art of John Berkey
Both of these books are out-of-print and are fairly expensive to buy nowadays, but I've heard that they might be reprinted.
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A 9th Otis Elevator Ad from 1975!!!!!!
From John Berkey's files!!!
Unseen for 35 years!!!
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It's always nice to see a Berkey painting/print respectfully framed!
This large framed print is from Berkey's December 1971 calendar, and it was recently up for bids on eBay starting at $47
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Original Art FOR SALE
Contact me if you are interested in buying either of these 2 originals!
ABOVE: A 1991 commission for a Japanese Theme Park
BELOW: Another theme park commission
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Good Housekeeping
BELOW: It took me nearly 2 years to locate it, but here is John Berkey's 2nd of two illustrations he did for GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Magazine -- this one was in the March 1985 issue...
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Jurassic Park Prelims
Jane Frank sold this Jurassic Park Prelim for $182.50 on eBay in April 2011
John Berkey's other JURASSIC PARK Prelim
BELOW: This "Out of Time" prelim sold on eBay for $322 in April 2011:
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James Gurney sent me this John Berkey outdoor "plein air" painting sketch, and John signed it to James and his wife...
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John Berkey's portrait of Hank Guenther
Who was Hank Guenther? The Guenthers were the next door neighbors of the Berkeys back in the 1980s, and Hank & John were the best of friends!
John did this portrait of Hank in 1981 and gave it to him as a present, and John even wrote "Hank Guenther" above his signature...
Hank is no longer alive -- his daughter Kathy Guenther contacted me in 2010 and told me that her Mom had this painting, but no one had a camera to take of pics of it until now! When I talked with Demi about this painting, she said she remembered it -- and now we can all finally see it!
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1977 Folder by Berkey!
NOTE: Neither of these great 1977 paintings on this folder have never been posted on any other Berkey website before I posted them in 2009!
Here is what Michael Friedlander wrote to me when I shared these with him:
"Jim -- WOW... WOW... WOW... I can't believe that John did a future city piece (or 2!) that I have not seen before. These are absolutely my favorite works that he did!" --Michael
Click here to go to Page 2
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Welcome to the most extensive fan website of
JOHN BERKEY Artwork
Born 1932 / Died April 29, 2008
There are *1268* John Berkey paintings/images on this site, plus 90 or so enlarged details of illustrations -- a total of 1325+ images -- and more to come!
Most other Internet websites just show 20-30 of John Berkey's really great spaceship paintings -- I have done my best to track down his other more "rare" art!
* * *
NEW PAGES
To make the huge numbers of images on this site more manageable, I have set up these separate pages of Berkey's art:
(Click on the Left Sidebar Links)
<-- Berkey's OTIS ELEVATOR Ads
<-- Berkey's NATURE ART
<-- Berkey's JIGSAW PUZZLES
<-- TRIBUTES by Other Artists/Writers
<-- Berkey's 1961 (& '59 & '60) Calendar
<-- Berkey's POPULAR MECHANICS Art
<-- Berkey's TV GUIDE Art
<-- ROMANCE Art, etc., etc.!
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IT'S OUT NOW!!!!!
Illustration Magazine #36 with my 40-page article on John Berkey!!
See the entire issue online at:
www.illustration-magazine.com
Read how the article was put together:
<-- Click on ILLUSTRATION ARTICLE Link
Read the story of Berkey's HEINZ FACTORY painting!
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3 more 1950's Brown & Bigelow prints!
Electricity lighted this Menlo Park home first
Benjamin Franklin print shop in Philadelpia
Washington and Lee University - Leaders in learning
New on the NATURE ART Page
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This cruise ship disaster happened last month...
Here's Berkey's cruise ship disaster illustration for his 1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure book cover:
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6 Berkey Originals are coming up for auction on www.ha.com on February 9th
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The History of this Website
I began collecting Berkey's art back in 1976 when I saw Berkey's King Kong posters and the 1977 Death Star poster, and then his TV Guide illustrations and a couple of his Otis Elevator illustrations and of course lots of his great SF bookcovers -- but things really went into high gear in 2008 when I got Jane Frank's ART OF JOHN BERKEY and noticed the Checklist in the back of the book!
I was shocked that so much of Berkey's art remained unseen, so I used the Checklist to track down as much of it as I could find. Many of the listings helped, but several of them lead to frustrating dead ends by merely listing the year when the art was commissioned instead of the year/month that the art was published... which made locating many of the illustrations extremely difficult (there are at least 40-50 paintings on that list I have yet to find! And several not on the list...)
The Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base was also helpful:
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?22975
I first posted this website in October 2008, and with the help of several Berkey fans and collectors around the world this website has grown to amazing perportions! I sincerely thank everyone who has helped make this website possible.
* * *
FINALLY!
John Berkey's New York City Park skyline painting from the Nov. 1984 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING magazine...
... text covered the left half of the painting... only the older couple and their dog was still there...
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 28 YEARS
HERE IS THE COMPLETE PAINTING!!!
Donated by Demi Berkey
A beautiful Niagara Falls Art Print!
Donated by Demi Berkey
John Berkey did 2 Niagara Falls paintings, the other was for his 1977 calendar...
Berkey's 1977 Calendar has been moved to CALENDAR 2 Page...
Modern Medicine cover 1976!
Donated by Demi Berkey
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A new Berkey Video clip!
http://vimeo.com/30890377
And you'll see this Berkey painting on the film clip!
* * *
See more on the ROMANCE ART page!
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The Berkey Estate has a new website:
http://www.johnberkey.com/
John Berkey's SF art for sale!!
* * *
Berkey's Brown & Bigelow Prints
The earliest Berkey art!
1955-1956?
Albert Einstein worked at Princeton when he died on April 18, 1955 -- below is Berkey's painting of Einstein's Princeton desk and office -- Berkey started doing art for Brown & Bigelow in 1955...
BELOW is a photo of Einstein's desk when he died -- Berkey obviously added the famous E=mc2 equation and a few other things onto his painting of the blackboard, and shifted certain items around, but the pipe and the tobacco humidor and glass vial are still in the painting...
ABOVE: Washington often rode with hounds at Mount Vernon
ABOVE: President Andrew Jackson's Hermitage Home in Tennessee
ABOVE: Theodore Roosevelt's Ranch in the Dakota Badlands
ABOVE: Christmas Eve in a small New England Village
ABOVE: The Declaration of Indepence was written here.
ABOVE: The Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede in 1216
* * *
Qaddafi is DEAD 10/20/11
Most other Internet websites just show 20-30 of John Berkey's really great spaceship paintings -- I have done my best to track down his other more "rare" art!
* * *
NEW PAGES
To make the huge numbers of images on this site more manageable, I have set up these separate pages of Berkey's art:
(Click on the Left Sidebar Links)
<-- Berkey's OTIS ELEVATOR Ads
<-- Berkey's NATURE ART
<-- Berkey's JIGSAW PUZZLES
<-- TRIBUTES by Other Artists/Writers
<-- Berkey's 1961 (& '59 & '60) Calendar
<-- Berkey's POPULAR MECHANICS Art
<-- Berkey's TV GUIDE Art
<-- ROMANCE Art, etc., etc.!
* * *
IT'S OUT NOW!!!!!
Illustration Magazine #36 with my 40-page article on John Berkey!!
See the entire issue online at:
www.illustration-magazine.com
Read how the article was put together:
<-- Click on ILLUSTRATION ARTICLE Link
Read the story of Berkey's HEINZ FACTORY painting!
* * *
3 more 1950's Brown & Bigelow prints!
Electricity lighted this Menlo Park home first
Benjamin Franklin print shop in Philadelpia
Washington and Lee University - Leaders in learning
New on the NATURE ART Page
* * *
This cruise ship disaster happened last month...
Here's Berkey's cruise ship disaster illustration for his 1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure book cover:
* * *
6 Berkey Originals are coming up for auction on www.ha.com on February 9th
* * *
The History of this Website
I began collecting Berkey's art back in 1976 when I saw Berkey's King Kong posters and the 1977 Death Star poster, and then his TV Guide illustrations and a couple of his Otis Elevator illustrations and of course lots of his great SF bookcovers -- but things really went into high gear in 2008 when I got Jane Frank's ART OF JOHN BERKEY and noticed the Checklist in the back of the book!
I was shocked that so much of Berkey's art remained unseen, so I used the Checklist to track down as much of it as I could find. Many of the listings helped, but several of them lead to frustrating dead ends by merely listing the year when the art was commissioned instead of the year/month that the art was published... which made locating many of the illustrations extremely difficult (there are at least 40-50 paintings on that list I have yet to find! And several not on the list...)
The Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base was also helpful:
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?22975
I first posted this website in October 2008, and with the help of several Berkey fans and collectors around the world this website has grown to amazing perportions! I sincerely thank everyone who has helped make this website possible.
* * *
FINALLY!
John Berkey's New York City Park skyline painting from the Nov. 1984 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING magazine...
... text covered the left half of the painting... only the older couple and their dog was still there...
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 28 YEARS
HERE IS THE COMPLETE PAINTING!!!
Donated by Demi Berkey
A beautiful Niagara Falls Art Print!
Donated by Demi Berkey
John Berkey did 2 Niagara Falls paintings, the other was for his 1977 calendar...
Berkey's 1977 Calendar has been moved to CALENDAR 2 Page...
Modern Medicine cover 1976!
Donated by Demi Berkey
* * *
A new Berkey Video clip!
http://vimeo.com/30890377
And you'll see this Berkey painting on the film clip!
* * *
See more on the ROMANCE ART page!
* * *
The Berkey Estate has a new website:
http://www.johnberkey.com/
John Berkey's SF art for sale!!
* * *
Berkey's Brown & Bigelow Prints
The earliest Berkey art!
1955-1956?
Albert Einstein worked at Princeton when he died on April 18, 1955 -- below is Berkey's painting of Einstein's Princeton desk and office -- Berkey started doing art for Brown & Bigelow in 1955...
BELOW is a photo of Einstein's desk when he died -- Berkey obviously added the famous E=mc2 equation and a few other things onto his painting of the blackboard, and shifted certain items around, but the pipe and the tobacco humidor and glass vial are still in the painting...
ABOVE: Washington often rode with hounds at Mount Vernon
ABOVE: President Andrew Jackson's Hermitage Home in Tennessee
ABOVE: Theodore Roosevelt's Ranch in the Dakota Badlands
ABOVE: Christmas Eve in a small New England Village
ABOVE: The Declaration of Indepence was written here.
ABOVE: The Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede in 1216
* * *
Qaddafi is DEAD 10/20/11
John Berkey did this illustration of Qaddafi for a 1990 Reader's Digest book:
* * *
A SURPRISE FIND:
Two Berkey Columbus Puzzles!!
See them on the Berkey Puzzle Page
* * *
Berkey's Promotional Flyer
The 2 Berkey Art Books
1994 Painted Space 2003 Art of John Berkey
Both of these books are out-of-print and are fairly expensive to buy nowadays, but I've heard that they might be reprinted.
* * *
A 9th Otis Elevator Ad from 1975!!!!!!
From John Berkey's files!!!
Unseen for 35 years!!!
* * *
It's always nice to see a Berkey painting/print respectfully framed!
This large framed print is from Berkey's December 1971 calendar, and it was recently up for bids on eBay starting at $47
* * *
Original Art FOR SALE
Contact me if you are interested in buying either of these 2 originals!
ABOVE: A 1991 commission for a Japanese Theme Park
BELOW: Another theme park commission
* * *
Good Housekeeping
BELOW: It took me nearly 2 years to locate it, but here is John Berkey's 2nd of two illustrations he did for GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Magazine -- this one was in the March 1985 issue...
* * *
Jurassic Park Prelims
Jane Frank sold this Jurassic Park Prelim for $182.50 on eBay in April 2011
John Berkey's other JURASSIC PARK Prelim
BELOW: This "Out of Time" prelim sold on eBay for $322 in April 2011:
* * *
James Gurney sent me this John Berkey outdoor "plein air" painting sketch, and John signed it to James and his wife...
* * *
John Berkey's portrait of Hank Guenther
Who was Hank Guenther? The Guenthers were the next door neighbors of the Berkeys back in the 1980s, and Hank & John were the best of friends!
John did this portrait of Hank in 1981 and gave it to him as a present, and John even wrote "Hank Guenther" above his signature...
Hank is no longer alive -- his daughter Kathy Guenther contacted me in 2010 and told me that her Mom had this painting, but no one had a camera to take of pics of it until now! When I talked with Demi about this painting, she said she remembered it -- and now we can all finally see it!
* * *
1977 Folder by Berkey!
NOTE: Neither of these great 1977 paintings on this folder have never been posted on any other Berkey website before I posted them in 2009!
Here is what Michael Friedlander wrote to me when I shared these with him:
"Jim -- WOW... WOW... WOW... I can't believe that John did a future city piece (or 2!) that I have not seen before. These are absolutely my favorite works that he did!" --Michael
* * *
This Berkey Snow Barn original sold on eBay for $300 in Sept. 2010 -- but now in January 2011 it was sold again on eBay for $504!
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Vincent DiFate sent me a scan of
Berkey's "Deer Me, Me Deer" Prelim
that he owns! 
This beautiful Berkey prelim has NEVER been seen before on the Internet, and I give Vincent DiFate a sincere heartfelt "Thank you!" for sharing it with me -- Berkey's 1998 "Deer Me, Me Deer" illustration was done for the ILLUSTRATORS 41 submission poster (which has always been one of my favorites!)... 
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Click here to go to Page 2
(or the other pages on the side links)
continued....