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- James Barkley Gallery, Impact Arts
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James Barkley is an artist, illustrator, and professor[ clarification needed ] from Pleasantville, New York. [1] He has received a wide range of commissions across many areas; including children's books, book covers, classic books, advertising, television, newspapers, and magazines, and he has created portraits of many famous personalities and political figures. [1] [2]
Barkley is a professor at the Parsons School of Design and the University of Bridgeport. He has lectured at the Pratt Institute, Marymount College, the School of Visual Arts, and the Society of Illustrators, where he has also served as a trustee. [1] [3]
Barkley has created work for the novels of Pearl S. Buck, Stephen King, James Baldwin, and Alex Haley. Among other commissions, he has created artwork for productions of operas The Merry Widow , Madame Butterfly , and La bohème . He has also painted for National Geographic, the United Nations, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the National Park Service, the U.S. Postal Service, NBC, IBM, General Foods, PepsiCo, Sony, Columbia Pictures, Esquire , and McCall's . [1] [2] [3]
His exhibition credits include the Norman Rockwell Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. [2]
He is credited with illustrating the book covers for A Torrent of Faces, The CTZ Paradigm, Ladis and the Ant, and Sounder , by William H. Armstrong. [1] [4] [5]
Barkley is the cover illustrator of The O'Jays Ship Ahoy album
Outside of Barkley's work as an artist, he was also the co-founder of the Spartan Football Club, a non-profit organization, in New York. [1]
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David Cherry is an American artist, author, and illustrator of science fiction and fantasy and has also done substantial work as a marketing artist, concept artist, and 3D modeler in the game production industry. Cherry served as Lecturer and Head of the Art Department as well as Head of the master's degree Program for artists at The Guildhall at SMU, a graduate college dedicated to studies for people who want to work in the game production industry. Cherry was also an attorney, as well as a past president of the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (1988–1990). He has been nominated eleven times for Hugo Awards, and 18 times for Chesley Awards.
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