Retro dinosaur

What's left to say about Zdeněk Burian? One of the all-time Grand Masters of palaeoart, Burian's paintings have enthralled generations, and have no doubt inspired countless children to become palaeontologists and/or palaeoartists themselves; David's also posted on him once before (please forgive me for covering some of the same ground). Life before Man, with text from Zdeněk Špinar, provides a breathtaking collection of his very best work in which dinosaurs do not completely dominate (which…

Nice James E. Allen illustration from the Sinclair Dinosaur Book.

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Contrary to the beliefs of some - who seem to think that I collect these books by holding a net out of the window and reciting an arcane incantation until obsolete illustrations start falling from the clouds - I do actually physically own the vast majority of the books I review in Vintage Dinosaur Art. As time goes on, finding fresh old books and not paying through the nose becomes increasingly difficult. Praise be, then, to the Amnesty International book shop in Brighton, which is where I…

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Dinosaurs

Tyrannosaurus; Late Cretaceous (67 - 66 Ma); Theropod; Discovered by Barnum Brown, 1900-1902; Described by Osborn 1905; Artwork by Charles R Knight

Sinclair Oil, the petroleum company with the sauropod as its logo, used to give out sets of dinosaur stamps as a promotional gimmick. I scored four sets of three recently, in really good condition. Sinclair did many series of these; this set was apparently from 1959. Despite being labeled as "Dinosaur Stamps," they do feature other prehistoric critters such as the Permian beasts Dimetrodon and Lycaenops. I have not yet been able to figure out who the artist is. Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 These…

This famousTyrannosaurus painting — today known to be inaccurate in some ways — was done by artist Charles R. Knight 1906 for New York’s American Museum of Natural History under the direction of museum paleontologist and director, Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn. Knight based his Tyrannosaurus painting directly on this somewhat incorrect reconstruction of the dinosaur’s skeleton published […]

Very, very occasionally, when the planets in the Solar System arrange themselves in an apparently haphazard, but in fact entirely co-ordinated and precise pattern, a truly superb and genuinely vintage dinosaur book appears, like a distant, glittering jewel, over the eBay horizon. (The rest of the time, I buy any old rubbish from the '80s and you get lousy filler posts.) The How and Why Wonder Book of Dinosaurs is just such a book. It's also no less than the first dinosaur book owned by a…