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Berkey’s 1977 TEXACO Calendar
Unseen for 34 YEARS!!!
ABOVE: A 1915 Ford Assembly Line (NICE!!!)
BELOW: An old mill 1977
This one was also used in B&B’s 1984 Artists Calendar:
Oil well drilling in Alaska 1977…
…Hoover Dam 1977…
NOTE:
Berkey did the Hoover Dam *TWICE*!
First in the 1967 calendar, then again in this 1977 calendar!
…Cape Canaveral in Florida 1977…
*NOTE: This 1977 calendar was done at the same time that Berkey did his 1977 STAR WARS art projects — everyone has seen those…
…BUT NO ONE HAS SEEN THIS
1977 CALENDAR
UNTIL NOW IN 2011!!!
A GREAT painting of a San Francisco cable car!!!!!!
Oklahoma Wildcat Oil Well
BELOW: This painting was on John’s 1980’s “blurry” video —
but now we can finally see it IN FOCUS!!
BELOW: This painting was also on John’s 1980’s “blurry” video —
but now we can finally see it IN FOCUS!!
The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk!
This 1977 painting was re-used in Popular Mechanics 1993:
A beautiful River Boat
This 1977 riverboat painting that was used to make this Brown & Bigelow silver foil art print!…
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Berkey’s 1971 Calendar
This calendar had 25 great paintings!!
See the deer?
BELOW: This painting was in John’s “blurry” video, but now we can finally see it in focus!…
BELOW: This painting was in John’s “blurry” video, but now we can finally see it in focus!…
*(This Hoover Dam painting was in Berkey’s Sept. 1967 calendar!)
ABOVE: Another painting from John Berkey’s 1980s video film — and now we can finally see this one in focus too!
This one was also done as a silver foil art print:
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Here are enlargements of some of the sketches in this 1971 calendar:
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Berkey’s 1970 Calendar
This calendar had 28 paintings!!
These 4 small paintings were on the cover of this 1970 calendar…
And here are the full-sized calendar images…
BELOW: The “blurry” image from John’s 1980s experimental video:
The crystal-clear image of this really nice ship painting!…
BELOW: This painting was in the blurry 1980’s Berkey film:
…and now we can finally see the entire painting “in focus”!
(Nice train!…)
BELOW: This was another painting that was in the blurry 1980’s Berkey film…
…and now we can finally see it in focus!!
BELOW: This one was also in Berkey’s blurry video…
…and now we can finally see this really nice painting in focus!
BELOW: Another blurry painting from the 1980’s Berkey video:
…and here’s the entire painting “in focus” for the first time in 25 years!
BELOW: Another blurry image…
…and here’s the gold mining painting “in focus”!
BELOW: The 6th blurry image…
…and we finally get to see the clear image of this exceptional painting!!
This calendar came out in 1970 when I was 20 years old — I’m 60 now — so it took me 40 years to finally see this wonderful calendar!!
And Berkey closes this calendar with another of his beautiful winter church paintings…
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Here are the 12 smaller sketches from the 1970 calendar by themselves…
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John Berkey’s
1968 Americana Calendar
Sorry, no prelims for these paintings — and again Berkey signed them all
“JConrad”!
BELOW: A pic of the real Saw Mill in this Berkey painting…
BELOW: 2 pics of the real Old Swedes Church in Delaware built in 1698, the oldest Protestant Church in North America:
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These calendars have been unseen for 30+ years!!
I hope you’ve enjoyed finally seeing them like I have!
Again, if you have any other Berkey calendars,
please contact me so I can post the images here!
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One last Berkey “Surprise”….
This is the cover that John Berkey did for a 1964 calendar — and he ONLY did the cover!
All the interior pages were done by another artist!
