New Hampshire exhibit opens tomorrow

New Hampshire Institute of the Arts opens its Dinotopia exhibition tomorrow, Wednesday, February 20.

The show of 22 original Dinotopia paintings and drawings will be on view in the Amherst building through March 13. The opening is at 5:00. It's free and open to the public.

After the opening I'll give an illustrated lecture about "Worldbuilding: How to Develop a Fantasy Universe." The lecture starts at 6:30 pm and costs $20 to attend. There will be a book signing afterward.

New Hampshire Institute of the Arts

Attic Scene (One Hundred Years Index)

Yesterday Christie's New York auctioned 232 images from National Geographic's art and photo collection, including my oil on canvas "The Attic Scene." It was commissioned by the Geographic for its centennial in 1988. The painting sold for $50,000, twice the high estimate, and more than three times the low estimate.

Washington Post article about the sale (Thanks, Martha)
Previously on GJ: More about the painting and how it was created

Lyman Allyn Museum Show to Open in September

Yesterday a truck picked up the artwork for the Dinotopia 20th anniversary exhibition coming up next month in Connecticut.

This exhibition of 135 works will be by far the largest and most comprehensive showing of my original artwork. It will feature never-before exhibited works from all four Dinotopia books, including, for the first time, Dinotopia: First Flight. 

The curators took a special interest in the creative process, with a detailed examination of preliminary sketches, hand-made maquettes, reference photos, and plein-air studies. Plus there will be a few non-Dinotopia landscape paintings, National Geographic illustrations, and science fiction works.

If you've already seen the Dinotopia exhibitions at the Norton, the Delaware, or the Norman Rockwell art museums, this show will feature a completely different set of work, most of which has never left the studio.

There will be a whole slate of special programs, including book creators Walter Wick and Bruce Degen, presentations on dinosaurs, and an American Girls Tea Party. I'll be doing a presentation and book signing on October 13.

"DINOTOPIA: Art, Science, and Imagination" will be at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut from September 22, 2012 through February 2, 2013.

Allentown Fantasy show opens tomorrow

The museum exhibition "At the Edge: Art of the Fantastic" opens tomorrow at the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The paintings and sculpture encompass the worlds of mythology, fairy tales, dreams, monsters, fantasy, science fiction, adventure, surrealism, and the bizarre. Right: "Beauty and the Beast" by Thomas Blackshear

Organized by Patrick and Jeannie Wilshire, founders of IlluxCon, the show includes over 200 works of from 145 artists, roughly 45 of them predating 1940. It's unlikely that a larger or more comprehensive museum show of this kind will ever be assembled in our lifetimes.


There will be a preview party Saturday evening (public invited, tickets still available), and the museum opens for free on Sunday. I have two Dinotopia paintings in the show (visible on end wall), and I'll be attending both days. The show will be on view through September 9.

At the Edge: Art of the Fantastic
Muddy Colors Post with more information

Allentown Art Museum exhibition

From June 3 through September 9, 2012, the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania will host a major group exhibition of fantasy art. The show includes "Dinosaur Parade" and "Garden of Hope," two important Dinotopia paintings. At the Edge Exhibition.

Dinotopia Museum Exhibition

The biggest-ever exhibition of original Dinotopia artwork opened January 28 at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin. 

The exhibition features 61 original oil paintings created for the Dinotopia books. It will be on view through April 8, 2012.


The show includes paintings from three Dinotopia books, Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time (1992), Dinotopia: The World Beneath (1995), and Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara (2007), along with a window into the creative process by means of preliminary sketches, plein air paintings, and handmade reference maquettes.

Two of the most important paintings in the Dinotopia series, Dinosaur Parade and Dinosaur Boulevard, which have not been publicly exhibited in more than 15 years, will also be included.

There are lots of activities scheduled for the run of the exhibit. James Gurney will be in attendance March 1-4 for lectures, workshops, and gallery walk-throughs. 

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Here's some of the press coverage:

Review, Wausau Daily Herald

Photo gallery of Snow Sculptors

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There's more information at the Norman Rockwell Museum's website about hosting the Dinotopia exhibit at your museum.
Woodson Art Museum

Dinotopia Original at Riverside Art Museum

The Riverside Art Museum is currently showing an exhibit called “Baby Tattooville on Parade.”


The Dinotopia original painting “Marketplace of Ideas,” from Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara included in the exhibit.

The exhibit continues through November 8 in Riverside, California.
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Riverside Art Museum: "Baby Tattooville on Parade"