March 28, Sunday by Earle K. Bergey - Oil On Canvas, 1926
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Description: EARLE K. BERGEY.
"March 28 Sunday." An early work created while Bergey was still attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Oil on canvas. 660x610 mm; 26x24 inches. Signed and dated "E.K. Bergey, [19]26" in lower right image. Craquelure mainly to areas of white.
Artist Biography:
"Earle" Bergey was born Earl Kulp Bergey on August 26, 1901 in Philadelphia, PA. His father was A. Frank Bergey and his mother was Ella Kulp Bergey. There were six children in the family.
rom 1921 to 1926 he attended night classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. However, he is not listed as having ever been a full-time art student or having graduated the school.
He continued his work for newspapers and by 1927 he was drawing a comic strip called Deb Days for The Philadelphia Ledger.
During the Great Depression newspaper circulations shrank as advertising fell off. At the same time many illustrators were finding new opportunities in the New York City pulp magazine industry, which had begun to enter their most prosperous years. His first pulp magazine covers were for the spicy pin-up titles, such as Gay Book, Pep, La Paree, Bedtime, Snappy, and Brief Stories.
He then sold freelance pulp covers to the Thrilling Group publications, which was owned by Ned Pines, such as Captain Future, Exciting Football, Startling Stories, Thrilling Sports, and Thrilling Wonder.
By 1948 the owner of the Thrilling Group, Ned Pines, was producing Popular Library paperback books. Many of these covers were assigned to Earle Bergey. Bergey was a friend of the art editor, Churchill Ettinger, a former illustrator for the New York Sunday World. In addition, Bergey was also pals with another pulp illustrator from Pennsylvania, Rudy Belarski. The three friends would frequently get together for lunch and discuss ideas for paperback book covers, while creating the influential look of Popular Library paperbacks from 1948 to 1952. Bergey's most noteable contribution to this heritage was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Besides Popular Library, he also illustrated paperback book covers for other publishers, such as Avon Books, Lion Books, and Pocket Books.
Earle Bergey died unexpectedly while undergoing a stress test on his heart in a doctor's office at age fifty-one on September 30, 1952.
This bio was quoted from www.pulpartists.com and was written by David Saunders. Full bio here.
"March 28 Sunday." An early work created while Bergey was still attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Oil on canvas. 660x610 mm; 26x24 inches. Signed and dated "E.K. Bergey, [19]26" in lower right image. Craquelure mainly to areas of white.
Artist Biography:
"Earle" Bergey was born Earl Kulp Bergey on August 26, 1901 in Philadelphia, PA. His father was A. Frank Bergey and his mother was Ella Kulp Bergey. There were six children in the family.
rom 1921 to 1926 he attended night classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. However, he is not listed as having ever been a full-time art student or having graduated the school.
He continued his work for newspapers and by 1927 he was drawing a comic strip called Deb Days for The Philadelphia Ledger.
During the Great Depression newspaper circulations shrank as advertising fell off. At the same time many illustrators were finding new opportunities in the New York City pulp magazine industry, which had begun to enter their most prosperous years. His first pulp magazine covers were for the spicy pin-up titles, such as Gay Book, Pep, La Paree, Bedtime, Snappy, and Brief Stories.
He then sold freelance pulp covers to the Thrilling Group publications, which was owned by Ned Pines, such as Captain Future, Exciting Football, Startling Stories, Thrilling Sports, and Thrilling Wonder.
By 1948 the owner of the Thrilling Group, Ned Pines, was producing Popular Library paperback books. Many of these covers were assigned to Earle Bergey. Bergey was a friend of the art editor, Churchill Ettinger, a former illustrator for the New York Sunday World. In addition, Bergey was also pals with another pulp illustrator from Pennsylvania, Rudy Belarski. The three friends would frequently get together for lunch and discuss ideas for paperback book covers, while creating the influential look of Popular Library paperbacks from 1948 to 1952. Bergey's most noteable contribution to this heritage was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Besides Popular Library, he also illustrated paperback book covers for other publishers, such as Avon Books, Lion Books, and Pocket Books.
Earle Bergey died unexpectedly while undergoing a stress test on his heart in a doctor's office at age fifty-one on September 30, 1952.
This bio was quoted from www.pulpartists.com and was written by David Saunders. Full bio here.
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