John Berkey's

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Art

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This great painting appeared in the October 1989 National Geographic -- but instead of it being printed as a nice LARGE double-page spread, they only printed it teeny-tiny on the Editorial/Contents Page!



National Geographic / March 1988:

And it was reprinted in the 1999 FIRST PEOPLES book in black & white:




Bad Indians!...

BELOW: Berkey's prelim for this painting:




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National Geographic / April 1989
Berkey did 2 illustrations in this issue.






Berkey's Drowning Men Prelim


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The Wedding


Berkey's sig:



The original art:

Berkey's 2nd version of this scene (unpublished):






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BELOW:  An unpublished Berkey illustration done for a 1988 National Geographic that I found on the Internet: