Peacock Dancer
Peacock Dancer c1935 by American Illustrator Earle Kulp Bergey (1901 – 1952), Moler a Pin-up Kënschtler, gët als dee produktivste Moler vum 20. Joerhonnert ugesinn.
He created the cover art for thousands of Pulp Fiction Magazines and Paperback books across a wide diversity of genres.
Den Peacock Dancer is a beautiful and flamboyant Art Deco illustration of a female dancer wearing a peacock dress, dancing it up against a black background.
The Peacock Dancer is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that you can purchase as wall art wall decor.
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Earle K. Bergey (August 26, 1901 - September 30, 1952) war en amerikanesche Kënschtler an Illustrator, deen Cover Art fir Dausende vu Pulp Fiction Zäitschrëften a Pabeierbicher gemoolt huet. Ee vun de produktivste Pulp Fiction Kënschtler vum 20. Joerhonnert, Bergey gëtt unerkannt fir den ikonesche Cover vun Gentlemen Prefer Blondes fir Popular Library op der Héicht vu senger Carrière ze kreéieren 1948.
Marking the start of Bergey’s highly influential run as an American paperback illustrator, this bombshell painting made the mass paperback cover of Anita Loos’s blockbuster, Hären léiwer Blonden (published as Popular Library #221).
Earle K. Bergey’s cover painting for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, ëm 1948.
Bergey was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to A. Frank and Ella Kulp Bergey. He attended Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1921 an 1926, finishing formal Academy studies in the spring of 1926. He initially went to work in the art departments of Philadelphia newspapers including Public Ledger, and he drew the comic strip Deb Days in 1927. Early in his career, Bergey contributed many covers to the pulp magazines of publisher Fiction House.
By the mid-1930s, Bergey made a home and studio in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and he married in 1935.
Throughout the 1930s, Bergey worked freelance for a number of publishing houses.
His eye-catching paintings were predominantly featured as covers on a wide array of pulp magazines, including romance (Thrilling Love, Popular Love, Love Romances) as well as detective, Erliefnes, aviation, and Westerns. Bergey illustrated mainstream publications, such as The Saturday Evening Post, during this time.
During the 1940s, Bergey continued to paint covers for romance, Sport, and detective pulp magazines, and he began working on a number of science fiction magazines, including Standard Publications’ Strange Stories, Startling Stories, and Captain Future, and later for Fantastic Story Magazine.
Bergey’s fine art training and salient gift for depicting anatomy made him a go-to artist across a diversity of genres that required scenes with dramatic movement, from photo-realistic sports portraits of famous athletes including Mickey Cochrane, Lou Gehrig, an den Jim Thorpe zu senger Ënnerschrëft Bergey Girls, déi op risque Pulps uechter d'Depressioun opgetaucht sinn an a Science Fiction Szenarie vum Zweete Weltkrich.
Dem Kënschtler seng Illustratioune vu knapp gekleete Fraen, déi am Weltraum iwwerlieft hunn, hunn als Inspiratioun fir dem Prinzessin Leia säi Sklave-Meedchen Outfit am Return of the Jedi gedéngt, souguer seng Faarf a Schnëtt, an dem Madonna seng konisch Messing Brassière. Dem Bergey seng Science Fiction deckt, heiansdo beschriwwen als “Bim, GUTT, Bum,” normalerweis huet eng Fra vun engem Bug-Eyed Monster menacéiert, auslännesch, oder Roboter, mat engem heroeschen männlechen Astronaut, deen hir Hëllef kënnt.
Bikini-Tops, déi vu Bergey Meedercher gedroe ginn, hunn dacks ähnlech wéi e Kupfer Metal, déi Ausdrock entsteet “d'Meedchen an der Brass BH,” benotzt a Bezuch op dës Art vu Konscht. Visionären am Fernseh a Film goufen vum Bergey senger Aarbecht beaflosst; Gene Roddenberry, zum Beispill, huet säi Produktiounsdesigner fir Star Trek Beispiller vu Bergey's futuristesche Pulpdeckelen zur Verfügung gestallt.
An 1948, De Bergey huet den Iwwergank zu der séier erweiderter Paperback Buchindustrie zesumme mat qualifizéierten Pulp Kënschtler wéi Rudolph Belarski gemaach, deem seng Aarbecht dacks mat Bergey verwiesselt gëtt. Iwwerdeems weider Pulp deckt molen bis zu sengem Doud.