Looking at a John Berkey illustration closely, all you see are blobs of paint and streaks of wash. Step back and you're drawn into breathtaking vistas of unimaginable scenes. His work reminds me a bit of architectural illustrators (the good ones), who can make a convincing automobile from three drops of paint. It reads a car because the viewer's brain completes the picture.

My Berkey posters are so dog-eared and ratty after 25 years it looks like the dog ate them. That's because they've hung in every apartment and house I've lived in since the late seventies. I pulled these images off the web (the top two and lower left images I hadn't seen before I built this website; the lower right image is one of the dog-eared posters). When I went online and saw the Berkey images I'd never seen before, it was like opening Christmas presents. (click on each image to enlarge)