[BERKE] Wiggins, Walt. Ernest Berke: Paintings and Sculptures of the Old West Item #0995
4to; cloth in white d.j.; 103 illustrations with 53 color. Roswell, NM: Pintores Press, 1980. 1st Trade Edition, inscribed by artist & author. Inscribed, "To Joe Shebl with kind regards -Ernest Berke, Walt Wiggins." Ernest Berke began his career in art after WW II, with an interest in Native American crafts. Turning his interest to first to painting, then sculpture, Burke had established himself among collectors of Western Art by the 1960s. In the 1970s Berke moved to New Mexico, where he continued to build his reputation as an artist specializing in Native American subject matter. Moderate wear to jacket; fine in very good jacket. |