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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Berkey is probably best known for his sleek and sometimes almost organic paintings of spaceships. (2/n)

A yacht-like space cruiser hangs in the sky over a planet and catches the light of a rising sun.

A space cruiser "smears" towards the right-hand side of the painting in a dull red orange as it if is just moving into or dropping out of hyperspace.

A ship that very much resembles a fish or a yacht skims the surface of an ocean, with a futuristic city towering above in the background.

A spaceship that looks just like a naval battleship or a large ocean-going vessel.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's east to see how his aesthetic grew out of and evolved from his earlier paintings of ships and naval vessels. (3/n)

Two sleek ships -- possibly hydrofoils -- skim the surface of an ocean.

A large cruiser ship in rough waters. It looks like people are jumping off the sides and making their way to life boats.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You could (and should) spend the morning looking at Berkey's paintings of spaceships. When I was a kid these were imagination gasoline. My favorite is probably the one he painted for the cover of the National Geographic book "Our Universe." (4/n)

The cover of the National Geographic book "Our Universe" featuring a painting of wedge-shaped, naval looking spaceship trailing multi-colored exhaust and flames.

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