Overview
Drawings and paintings of space ships by American comic book illustrator and inker, D. Bruce Berry.
Dates
- 1958 and undated
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
Extent
.25 linear feet (1 box)Includes 4 signed images of space ships, both drawings and paintings, by D. Bruce Berry. Media includes acrylic paint, Chinese white (pigment), gesso, graphite, ink, scratchboard, varnish, and watercolor. 1 image is dated as 1958.
Biographical / Historical
D. Bruce Berry (1924-1998) was a comic book illustrator and inker, born in Oakland, California. He served in World War II in the Air Force as a sign painter. After World War II he became involved with science fiction fandom having met Richard Kyle in Oakland, but mainly made his living as a merchandise artist, what he called a "hard-lines artist." He moved to Chicago in the 1950s, where he continued working in advertising becoming a one-man studio doing art, paste-ups, photo-retouching and finished layouts from a free-lance art director's roughs. At the end of the 1950s he illustrated "Imagination" for the last year of its existence, one of the last of the old pulp science-fiction magazines. After this he began work on comic fanzines, and then in the late 1960s he returned to California, but to Los Angeles this time. Berry inked much of Jack Kirby's 1970s work for DC comics. He sometimes used the name Morgan Drake.
Arrangement
Arranged by title.
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
No accession number. Source unknown; some images possibly gift of Alma Hill (sent to her by D. Bruce Berry); possibly received: 1959.
All items found in Lamont Science Fiction Room in 2011.
Processing Information
Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt
- Title
- Berry, D. Bruce. D. Bruce Berry drawings of space ships, 1958: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02209
Repository Details
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