John Berkey

Baseball, Baseball TV Guide Cover, Spring 1984

1984

Medium: Acrylic on Illustration Board Signature: Unsigned

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Cover Illustration: Cupid's Challenge (Zebra Valentine's Day Regency Romance) Mass Market Paperback – February 1, 1996

Medium: Acrylic on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of 'True Confessions' Written by Dunne John Gregory True Confessions, first published in 1977, is widely regarded as a classic American novel. Set in Los Angeles in 1948 and based on the notorious, never-solved Black Dahlia murder case, the story plumbs the depths of guilt and corruption — in the L.A.P.D., the Catholic Church, the construction industry, and in the relationships among them. Like the film Chinatown, which came to the screen three years before the novel, True Confessions illuminates the dark underside of Los Angeles at a time when corruption ran rampant and seemingly without shame. The book’s stature as a classic is underlined in an introduction by the brilliant novelist and screenwriter George Pelecanos, who writes of the author, “with True Confessions, he achieved what most novelists can only hope for. He left behind a work of art.” Indeed. True Confessions works on many levels: as a crime novel, as humor (the story is often laugh-out-loud funny), as an example of masterful writing style, as an emblematic tale of a great American city, and as a novel that explores the human condition with sensitivity and deep understanding. True Confessions revolves around the often testy relationship between two Irish-American brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy. Tom is a lieutenant in the L.A.P.D., a clever detective with a past history of corruption. Tom’s brother, Des, is a Catholic priest risen to the rank of Monsignor and the role of fixer and hatchet man for the aging Cardinal, whom he hopes to succeed. The two brothers come into conflict over their clashing agendas for a corrupt construction mogul who is one of the city’s richest and most powerful men. They have drastically different ideas about how to deal with the man. The author writes with compassion. For example, describing bystanders in a poor neighborhood, he writes, “They weren’t bad people. Just too-little, too-late people. Has-beens, never-weres, never-will-bes.” The novel is rife with unsympathetic characters, but none of them can be viewed as evil. The story opens and closes in the 1970s, when Tom and Des are old men, reviewing the wreckage of their careers. In between, two plots intertwine: Tom’s investigation of the shocking murder of a young woman, and Des’s attempts to strengthen the Church while scheming to position himself as the successor to the Cardinal. The late novelist and screenwriter John Gregory Dunne — he died in 2003 at the age of 71 — came naturally to writing. He was the younger brother of the writer Dominick Dunne...

Medium: Acrylic on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of 'Time and Again' by Jack Finney Time and Again is told in the first person by Simon Morley, a 28-year-old artist wor...

Model inspired, great colors, acrylic and spray on canvas, great art work, exhibitions in the best Art Galleries in France, USA and Mexico. :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes...

Idols Camouflage by Tide, 2020 acrylic on canvas 27 9/16 H x 27 9/16 W in. 70 H x 70 W cm The new series of paintings signed by Alexandru Rădvan was born during the total isolation ...

Lockdown, 2020 acrylic on canvas 27 9/16 H x 27 9/16 W in. 70 H x 70 W cm The new series of paintings signed by Alexandru Rădvan was born during the total isolation of 2020. It is t...

The Rite of Spring 2, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 82 43/64 H x 139 3/8 W in. 210 H x 354 W cm The artist's reference on fundamental myths of humanity and their analysis from the perspect...