Year: 2003
Publisher: Paper Tiger
ISBN: 1843401223
Content: 160 pages with mostly colour illustrations
John Berkey has came very late to my attention - he didn´t appear very often on European book covers. It was back in the early 90´s when Friedlander in the US started publishing Trading Cards from well and lesser known artists that he made his appearance on my shelf - because luckily Friedlander decided to publish some artbooks of their artists, one of them being John Berkey.
But not before Jane Frank´s effort in 2003 has he been picked up for a thorough overview on his career. Paper Tiger published a stunning hardcover on vast, spikey spaceships, beautiful renderings of cityscapes and landscapes as well as some unpublished personal work. His brushstrokes, always playing with light and structure, are so typical that he became one of the most recognized and admired artists of his field.
As the official homepage of John Berkey seems to deal only with licensing at the moment, I forward you to this page for some examples of his stunning art.
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