James Gurney (born June 14, 1958) is an American artist and author best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th-century explorer’s journal from an island utopia cohabited by humans and dinosaurs. He lives in Rhinebeck, New York, in the Hudson Valley of New York State. Gurney is also a paleoartist who depicts and restores in his paintings extinct fauna such as both avian and non-avian dinosaurs.
James Gurney, tame mosasaur!James Gurney, Pterosaur rider, cover art for The Greenwich Workshop Showcase, Vol. II, No. IV.James Gurney, The Zanzibar Cat by Joanna Russ 1984, a collection of 16 stories.James Gurney, Imaro 2: The Quest for Cush by Charles R. Saunders 1984.James Gurney, The Guardians of Time by Poul Anderson 1987.Dinotopia – James GurneyJames Gurney, Dinotopia: Art, Science and Imagination. I remember these!!! Great paintingsGirl and Dragon by James Gurney, cover for Forty Thousand in Gehenna by C.J. Cherryh.James GurneyThe imaginative world of Dinotopia by artist and author James GurneyALPINE PRINCESS BY JAMES GURNEY. This is the cover of The Zanzibar Cat by Joanna Russ, Baen Books, 1984. This is one of my favorite Gurney covers.James Gurney, Palace of the Pegasus.Dinotopia street scene by James GurneyThis contains an image of: Avian at the GateAbsolutely LOVE James Gurney’s art!!