Science Fiction Art

Berkey’s OUR UNIVERSE

BELOW: I’ve owned the OUR UNIVERSE book with John’s great cover ever since it came out in 1980, it’s been one of my favorites!

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Vincent DiFate sent me a scan of

Berkey’s “Deer Me, Me Deer” Prelim that he owns!

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This beautiful Berkey prelim has NEVER been seen before on the Internet, and I give Vincent DiFate a sincere heartfelt “Thank you!” for sharing it with me — Berkey’s 1998 “Deer Me, Me Deer” illustration was done for the ILLUSTRATORS 41 submission poster (which has always been one of my favorites!)…

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John Berkey at the 2005 ART.ORG gallery artshow…

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Some of my Berkey SF favorites…

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BELOW: This was printed in the trading card set, and I still don’t know where it was originally published… does anybody know??…

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This extremely popular PORTAL POSTER 1977 LIGHTSHIP original (below) sold in May 2010 on the Heritage Auction Galley website for a staggering $19,120
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Its prelim…
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BELOW: And this was the 4th of the 4 PORTAL posters — this scan was sent to me by the person who owns the original art of this painting (it was printed in the trading cards, but was printed so small and dark that it lost much of the details, this scan is much better)…
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Its prelim….
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BELOW: Ascent of Wonder, a 1994 hardcover, and its art:

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To see a list of Berkey’s SF publications go to the Internet Science Fiction Data Base website:
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?22975

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A Berkey IPOD Case

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Berkey’s original art from the March 1983 DISCOVER magazine was for sale on eBay:

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BELOW: This original was for sale on eBay in 2010, but did not sell:
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The person who was selling Berkey’s original art for “The Trophy” works at XCOR and took this neat pic of the painting next to one of their airplanes:

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The original art:
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John Berkey’s 1970s SF Book Club art!
(Donated by Doug Beekman)

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Nightrider 1987
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Total Recall 1989
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See the painting on the floor behind John?….

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The Plain Truth

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The title “FREE SAMPLE COPY” lettering in the upper right corner of this painting covered up part of the space craft — here it is “uncovered”:
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A 1991 “Starflight” computer game cover by Berkey!

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Berkey’s 1998 STAR CONTROL 3 Video Game Cover

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Science Fiction Book Club

BELOW: John Berkey’s illustrations that he did for a 1973 fold-out “triptic” SF Book Club flyer:

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Berkey’s 1976 SF Book Club Flyer:

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BELOW: Craig Peters owns the middle Berkey original:

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Armada Art

BELOW: The original for Berkey’s 1981 ARMADA bookcover sold on the Heritage Auction Gallery website in May 2010 for $2,031:

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2 Versions of Berkey’s “From Above”:

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DEEP SPACE – 1974

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Steve Burg & George Lucas have owned the DEEP SPACE original art —

http://www.lucasmuseum.org/collection/category/illustration-43.html#82,215

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One of Berkey’s prelims for DEEP SPACE…
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BELOW: A previously unpublished/unposted prelim!

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Tomorrow and Beyond

BELOW: The 7 Berkeys that were reprinted in the 1978 TOMORROW AND BEYOND art book:

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“Double Stack” SF Art

BELOW: A Berkey original entitled “Double Stack” (painted in 2004) is for sale for $5,150 on www.RareSF.com

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BELOW: The cover art for Berkey’s 2005 Art.Org artshow catalog

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ANALOG Cover Art

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BELOW: Berkey’s 2006 cover art for HAMMER’S SLAMMERS 1 & 2:

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With its prelim…
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NOTE: When the publisher of Hammer’s Slammers contacted John about doing a 3rd cover, John accepted the commission — but he suffered a fall and his health deteriorated so that he was unable to do the 3rd cover. Read the entire “Remembrance” at http://www.nightshadebooks.com/category/editorials/

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BELOW: Published in 2008 (but probably painted around 2004 or thereabouts) — sorry, I never liked it when publishers put giant color boxes over the artwork, in my opinion it totally intrudes and ruins the art!…
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John Berkey’s “Moon Colonies” Original Art

Sold on eBay June 2011 for $2,200…

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John Berkey’s 2006 Chinese SF Covers:

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This Berkey Prelim sold for $275 in November 2010

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It was a prelim for David Drake’s 1999 CROSS THE STARS….
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John Berkey’s Final SF Covers?…

This is perhaps the most “recently” published Berkey book cover — for the August 2009 Flights of Eagles

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And another Blish book published in 2008
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