The Young Man…..as an Artist!
Clyde Berryman is quite the artist himself! Self-taught, but maybe owing a bit to DNA inherited from his artistic mother, some of Clyde’s boyhood pencil, pen & ink and charcoal drawings showed promise. Below are 12 x 16 in. Fine Art print reproductions of his work available for purchase.
Family Pets
Clyde did these pen and ink profile drawings of his family’s pets, two dogs and a cat, when he was around 11-12 years old while growing up in Tripoli, Libya.
Naval History
A boyhood interest in naval history resulted in Clyde attending a naval prep school in New Jersey where he excelled in the humanities but did miserably in mathematics, undoubtedly distracted by often starting drawings like these while still in the classroom.
Vincent van Gogh
Clyde went through a ‘van Gogh’ phase as he discovered the world of art and art history. He began developing his own skills with freehand copies of this artist’s better known paintings and drawings.
Famous Authors
During his freshman year at the University of Alabama, Clyde’s English literature classes led him to explore famous authors from other countries as well.
Famous Chess Players
The 1972 World Chess Championship match held in Reykjavik, Iceland between American challenger Bobby Fischer and titleholder Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union got Clyde interested for a while in chess and the game’s history.
Famous Conductors
An interest in classical music led Clyde to focus on two conductors, Arturo Toscanini and Herbert van Karajan, whose interpretations make them favorites of his to this day.
Miscellaneous
A real mixture of topics here, still mostly from his University of Alabama college days. The pond behind his freshman year dormitory, the work desk in his room with a typewriter, pants, boots, and a chess set on the footlocker alongside (the legs in the poster belonged to Raquel Welch!). You might notice his drawing of the Grove Street Stompers jazz band which provided the initial inspiration for Gulay’s painting ‘Bal Musette a Montmartre’ (A Montmartre Ball).
Pen & ink by Clyde Berryman | 12" x 16" Fine Art print reproduction