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Home > Illustrations > Skeleton Pirate

Skeleton Pirate

By James Gurney | Created: 1987

Skeleton Pirate
Publication
  • "On Stranger Tides" by Tim Powers
Publication Date
  • 1987
Medium
  • Oil
Support
  • Illustration Board
Illustration Size
  • 17 × 11 in. (43.2 × 27.9 cm.)
Collection
  • Collection of the artist

©James Gurney

In 1992, just a few years after painting this eerie image for the cover of Tim Powers’s dark fantasy novel, On Stranger Tides (1987), Gurney launched his hugely successful book series Dinotopia, which features an imaginary world where humans and dinosaurs coexist.

Genres
  • Books
  • Cover Art
  • Pulp Illustration
  • Science Fiction
  • Creatures
  • Paranormal
Global Perspectives
  • North America
Related Time Periods
  • The Decade 1980-1990 The Decade 1980-1990

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