As one of today’s foremost automotive fine artists, Ken Eberts’ artwork has been featured at the most prestigious automotive events. His paintings have been reproduced as magazine and book covers, Christmas cards, prints, and used as posters for automotive events since 1968.
A graduate of New York’s High School of Music and Art and Los Angeles’ Art Center College of Design, he began his career as an automobile designer for Ford Motor Company. In 1968 He turned his attention toward automotive fine art and has been a full time automotive fine artist ever since. Over 1000 of his original paintings are in public and private collections worldwide. Many thousands of his posters and prints are displayed in automotive and art enthusiasts’ homes and offices.
Ken Eberts has achieved wide recognition for his work. It has been exhibited throughout the United States, earning numerous awards. He has received awards from the City of Los Angeles, American Artist Magazine, the City of Beverly Hills, and the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum.
In 1990 and 1992 he received the prestigious Peter Helck Award – “Best of Show” at the AFAS Exhibition at Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, and was also awarded the Richard Teague Award presented to an artist whose body of work best exemplifies the spirit of the automobile, at the 1994 and 1995 Meadow Brook Hall Concours d’Elegance in Rochester, Michigan.
He has been an exhibitor in the National Watercolor Society and his paintings have also been part of their National Touring Exhibition. He has also been honored with more than 25 one-man shows of his paintings across the United States.
Ken Eberts was a Founder of the Automotive Fine Arts Society, and has served as its president since its inception. The AFAS Exhibition is a featured part of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance each August.
Through his artwork he tries to communicate the history, excitement, aesthetics, nostalgia, and his love of automobiles, in a way that can be understood and appreciated by both automotive and art enthusiasts. Thirty years into his career as an automotive fine
artist, Ken Eberts still looks at each work as a fresh, individual idea. His pluralistic taste embraces all automobiles – new or old, costly or cheap, foreign or domestic.
Whether commissioned by one of the Big Three automobile companies, or creating a work of art for an individual collector, Ken pours the same enthusiasm and interest into each work. Ken always knew he wanted to paint and design automobiles, and has never swerved from that ambition.