What sets Gurney’s work apart is his close attention to scientific accuracy - his dinosaur illustrations are based on the latest research - and detail, Plunkett said. Gurney’s artistic inspirations include golden age illustrators N.C. “Like all great illustrators James Gurney is a great visual story teller,” said Stephanie Plunkett, deputy director and chief curator of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., which organized the exhibition. The books follows the adventures of the 19th-century explorer Arthur Denison and his son, Will, who were shipwrecked on Dinotopia, a utopian world dominated by peace-loving and cultured dinosaurs. The show contains more than 50 oil paintings, studies and maquettes Gurney created while writing and illustrating the popular series. It already exists at least in James Gurney’s Dinotopia books, a door to which has been flung wide in the exhibition at the Norton Museum. Imagine a place where humans and dinosaurs live compatibly side by side.
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