11/03/2023
Illustrator James Barkley
James Barkley is an artist, illustrator, and professor from Pleasantville, New York. 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.
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.
Barkley 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.
His exhibition credits include the Norman Rockwell Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. 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 amongst others.
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