A native New Yorker, Creighton Berry grew up in Manhattan and the South Bronx. He attended James Monroe High School and later graduated from Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. His advanced work includes studies at New York's School of Visual Arts.During Berry's career in advertising, he served as Executive Art Director of the former Gimbel's (New York) department store for many years. In 1969, he began working as a fulltime freelance illustrator until his retirement in 1989. A nationally recognized artist, Berry's work over the past seventy years includes mixed media collages, watercolor, acrylic, and oil paintings. A long-time volunteer in the Presbyterian church, today he creates his artwork at… his studio in Quiogue, New York on Long Island's East End.