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!
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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Berkey’s 2nd version of this scene (unpublished):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BELOW: An unpublished Berkey illustration done for a 1988 National Geographic that I found on the Internet: