Berkey, John
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- Omega threat, 1980:t.p. verso (John Berkey [illustrator])
- OCLC, 8/10/94(hdg.: Berkey, John; usage: Berkey; John Berkey)
- Frank, J. The art of John Berkey, 2003:t.p. (John Berkey) p. 7 (b. 1932, North Dakota)
- John Berkey Art Ltd., via WWW, 22 July 2014(John Berkey; lived most of his life in a small town in Minnesota; beginning in 1960s commissioned to do illustrations of astronauts and space program; began doing cover illustrations for science fiction novels in 1970s)
- Wikipedia, 22 July 2014(John Berkey; born August 13, 1932; died April 29, 2008; artist known for his space and sciece fiction themed works; freelance artist from the 1960s; lived in Shorewood, Minnesota)
Wikipedia description:
John C. Berkey (August 13, 1932 – April 29, 2008) was an American artist known for his space and science fiction themed works. Some of Berkey's best-known work includes much of the original poster art for the Star Wars trilogy, the poster for the 1976 remake of King Kong and also the "Old Elvis Stamp". Berkey produced a large body of space fantasy artwork, producing utopian scenes of bubble-shaped, yacht-like spaceships. His distinctive painterly style has been evaluated as "at once realistic, yet impressionistic and abstract", and his space craft designs as being "distinctly elegant, yet clearly technological and unmistakably Berkian; more inspired by luxury yachts and manta rays than NASA". He has been described as "one of the giants in the history of science fiction art".
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