(1959/1960/1961 Calendars)
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Berkey’s 1960 Calendar(s)
I have located *2* of them!
The General Tire Calendar is large, the “Farmers of the World” Calendar is the smaller normal size.
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1960 General Tire Calendar
(only 4 paintings)
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John Berkey’s 1959 Calendar!
(Only 4 paintings)
The original art of this ICE TRUCK painting sold on eBay in April 2010 for $560 —
and I located a copy of the 1959 calendar in September 2011
“The Cloth Saleman” original sold for $495 on eBay in April 2010,
and I found the calendar in September 2011
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1960 “Farmers of the World” Calendar
A total of 12 paintings & 12 smaller sketches!
**UNSEEN for 51 years**!!!….
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Berkey’s 1961 Calendar
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“Farmers of the World”
***UNSEEN FOR 50 YEARS***
A very early Berkey calendar! It’s fascinating to see how his art style was developing…
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Here are larger scans of the 12 smaller 1961 sketches:
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John Berkey’s 1965 Calendar!
He only did 4 of the 12 months, here are all 4 months (8 illustrations)…
BELOW: The September painting appeared in Berkey’s 1980s “blurry” video!
…and here is that painting “in focus” for the first time in 45 years!
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Other Calendar Art
I don’t have the calendars for these paintings, but it seems that these were done for various Brown & Bigelow calendars….
