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Category: Paleo Art

  • John Gurche

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    John Gurche is a paleontological artist known for the near-photographic realism and compositional drama in his scientific reconstructions of prehistoric life. Gurche was a consultant on Jurassic Park and provided paintings for the 1989 dinosaur stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. His illustrations have been in numerous books and have been featured in magazines like…

  • Charles R. Knight

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    Charles R. Knight was one of the most influential and well known paleontological artists in the history of the field, and was one of the pioneers of paleontological reconstruction art, creating images of extinct animals based on their fossil remains and a knowledge of modern animal anatomy. He began his study of art at an…

  • Michael Skrepnick

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    Michael Skrepnick gets to draw and paint fantastic animals that are as wild and bizarre as anything done by any fantasy or science fiction artist, except that the animals he portrays are real, or at least based on the best information we have about real animals that once walked the Earth. Paleo artists like Skrepnick…

  • William Stout

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    I first encountered Bill Stout’s work in underground comix. He then cropped up on the covers of Firesign Theatre albums and in the pages of magazines devoted to automotive humor from Peterson Publishing (a publishing niche which also featured work from Gilbert Shelton and Alex Toth). By the time I found his remarkable book of…

  • Olduvai George (Carl Buell)

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    Olduvai George is a blog title and online identity for natural history illustrator Carl Buell. (The name is a play on Olduvai Gorge, a large ravine in Tanzania where some of the earliest human remains have been found.) Buell has a passionate fascination with animals, living and extinct, although his work has him most often…

  • Douglas Henderson

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    Dinosaurs get all the attention in paleo art, and not surprisingly so. What else is so dramatic and visually arresting? But paleontological artists deal with many other aspects of recreating the appearance of prehistoric life. There are numerous other prehistoric animals that preceded, followed or co-existed with the dinosaurs. (The main animal in the image…