1.  Fantasy art gets a good showing in Flint Institute of Arts in Michigan, which is currently hosting "Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration" through January 8. 



    One of the images blown up to wall size is Red Dragon by Tyler Jacobson, 2014. 


    There are original paintings and drawings by artists such as Arthur Rackham (above), Howard Pyle, Frank Frazetta, NC Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Anna Dittmann, Gary Gianni, and Victo Ngai.

    Two of my paintings are in the show, Garden of Hope and Skeleton Pirate.

    Tony Diterlizzi and I demonstrate the startle reflex of the Horsfield's Tarsier. 

    We were joined by museum director Tracee Glab, FIA curator Rachael Holstege, Norman-Rockwell Museum-Curator Jesse Kowalski, and Art Historian Alice Carter.

    "Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration" will be on view through January 8. 

    If you can't make it to Michigan, there's a gorgeous catalog.

    Link to Audio Guides 

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    "Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration" has closed at the Norman Rockwell Museum. 

    Two of my paintings were part of the big fantasy exhibition which happened summer 2021 at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
     

    "Skeleton Pirate" and "Garden of Hope" were featured among works by Arthur Rackham, Maxfield Parrish, Jessie Willcox Smith, Joseph Clement Coll, N.C. Wyeth, and many contemporary illustrators.

    Standing: Laurie Norton Moffatt, director of the Norman Rockwell Museum, Scott Brundage, Sara Frazetta, James Warhola, Charles Vess, Thomas Blackshear, Ruth Sanderson, Scott Fischer, Alessandra Pisano, James Gurney, Jeff Echevarria, Mark Zug, Bob Eggleton, Scott Gustafson, Gary Gianni, Tony DiTerlizzi. Front row: Tyler Jacobson, Curator Jesse Kowalski, Greg Manchess, Donato Giancola, and Rebecca Guay.

    For most of us, it was our first time venturing out of our lockdown isolation, and it felt good to be able to shake hands and see old friends again. 
     

    Here I am with James Warhola, who painted the paperback cover "Magic for Sale" below.



    Rather than setting up the exhibit chronologically, curator Jesse Kowalski arranged it thematically, with rooms full of new and classic paintings devoted to mythic themes, such as dragons, faeries, mermaids, and monsters. 

    Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921), Winged Figure, 1889, Oil on Canvas, 51.5 x 37.75 in.

    Artists also include Arthur Rackham, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Gustave Doré, NC Wyeth, Herbert Draper, Howard Pyle, Maxfield Parrish, Frank Frazetta, Winsor McCay, Jessie Willcox Smith, Joseph Clement Coll,  Willy Pogany, J. Allen St. John, Dean Cornwell, Virgil Finlay, Hal Foster, and many more.

    The catalog produced by Abbeville, includes 180 images, mostly in color, with essays by Alice Carter, Stephanie Plunkett, and others.

    The exhibition "Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration" will travel to two other locations: Hunter Museum of America Art, Chattanooga, TN -- May 20, 2022 through September 5, 2022 and the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI -- September 23, 2022 through January 8, 2023

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  3.  To celebrate the successful landing of the 'Perseverence' Mars rover, the California Art Club has arranged a virtual exhibition called 'Mars: An Artistic Mission.'

      

    Artists include Bryan Taylor, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, William Stout, Peter Adams and me.

    James Gurney, The Ice Rover, Oil on board, 20" x 14", $4200

    In this oil painting, which is for sale, autonomous fusion crawlers inch across the frozen landscape, deploying forward feelers, grinding heads, and communication arrays to transmit their discoveries back to Earth.

    More info:
    NASA Mars Mission site: Mars rover 'Persistence' 
    California Art Club exhibit: 'Mars: An Artistic Mission.'
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  4. On March 1-2, 2020, Heritage Auctions will offer an original background painting, complete with hand painted cel overlays, from the movie Fire and Ice (Ralph Bakshi / Frank Frazetta).
    The auction description says: "Here's an exceptional original hand-painted cel and background setup from Fire and Ice, an epic high fantasy animated film that was a collaboration between Ralph Bakshi and one of the most important fantasy and science fiction artists of the past century, Frank Frazetta. It was also a collaboration with another artist of note, James Gurney. Mr. Gurney is best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia; he painted the gorgeous backgrounds for Fire and Ice, his first major assignment. This splendid piece actually has two James Gurney paintings; the vine-wrapped tree at the right, and as an overlay, a foreground of flowers, a wall, and a pond. This scene occurs not long after Princess Teegra and and the warrior Larn first get together, at the ancient ruins; here, Teegra laughs as Larn clowns around after being told to "behave himself."
    2020 March 1-2 Sunday & Monday Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online Auction #122009
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  5. Three of my paintings are currently on display in Cincinnati, Ohio at a museum exhibition called "In the Audubon Tradition."

     They're available Two of them are still available for purchase (The one on the left has sold). More info here.
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  6. Someone sent me an Ebay listing for this original oil landscape, closing on September 18, but I can't seem to find the listing anymore. I'm not quite sure how Ebay works so it might have sold.
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  7. Khaan mckennai, oil on board by James Gurney SOLD
    A special exhibit of artwork by contemporary wildlife artists, including three of my dinosaur paintings, is now on view at the Cincinnati Museum Center in Ohio.

    T. rex Family Bathing, 14 x 18, oil on panel
    Artists include: Greg Beecham, Robert Bateman, Guy Coheleach, James Gurney, Mort Solberg, Kent Ullberg, John Seery-Lester, Jim Coe, Suzie Seerey-Lester, and John Ruthven

    T. rex in Forest, 14 x 18, oil on panel
    Most of the items, including mine, will be for sale.


    Here's more:
    "In the Audubon Tradition" Exhibition - This fall the newly renovated Cincinnati Museum Center is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its Museum of Natural History & Science. Founded in 1818 as the Western History Society, its doors opened in 1820. Its first employee was famed naturalist and artist, John James Audubon. To help commemorate the 200th anniversary of Audubon’s amazing creative efforts, the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation is sponsoring a unique exhibition at the Cincinnati Museum Center, “In the Audubon Tradition“ Exhibition & Sale… featuring the birds and wildlife of North America, September 12th, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020. The exhibition includes nearly 100 of today’s most celebrated and accomplished painters and sculptors, following in the artistic tradition that John James Audubon began 200 years ago."
    The exhibition closes January 5, 2020.
    (Link to YouTube video)
    Museum website
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  8. Coming up in the 2019 October 15 Illustration Art Signature Auction - Dallas #5417

    James Gurney (American, b. 1958)
    "Bix Leapt Down from Her Perch,"Dinotopia interior illustration, 1992
    Oil and pencil on board
    6 x 7.25 in. (sight)
    Signed lower center
    A copy of the book accompanies this lot.
    Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000.

    Condition Report*:Artwork is on acid free heavyweight Columbia 1776 illustration board; There appears to be no major visible condition issues to note; framed under glass to 19 x 31 inches
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    (Link to Heritage Auction)
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  9. An exhibition of natural science art opens in Binghamton, New York tomorrow.

    "Focus on Nature XV" will be on display at the Roberson Museum and Science Center. The show features 87 illustrations by 69 artists, including two oil paintings by me: Triceratops Hatchlings and Repenomamus.

    More info from the show:
    A five-member jury of artists and scientists select the artwork for each exhibition based on the illustration’s scientific accuracy and uniqueness, educational value and artistic quality. Artists featured in the exhibition are from countries around the world, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
    Free exhibition catalog online the State Museum website



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  10. My painting of Daffodil Hill will be on view at a show of art from the collection of Jack 




    Richeson, opening May 30, 2019 in Egg Harbon, Wisconsin. (Link)



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