Artists and Collections

Artists | Collections

Dracoliche.de / Petra 'Rilyn' Rudolf has one griffon. The selection on Petra's Elfwood site is large, but without a griffin. The dragons and drakes are impressive.

Artists

The Griffin's Lair / Jessica Entis, including 146 pictures of griffins. To prevent her swamping entire sections—her black and whites are particularly numerous—I chose a representative and striking 35 or so.

L!! Jennifer Miller's "pointless and weird online comic about two gryphons."

Dark Natasha has a few griffons, many more angels, dragons and faeries, in a distinctive (and rather adult) style.

Ursula Vernon / www.metalandmagic.com has a few griffons and a very funny monologue on griffon art and griffon artists:

"I hate gryphons. Can't stand 'em. It's not that there's anything wrong with them per se, and a few people have managed to do some lovely stuff with 'em, but they're a threshold drug. One minute someone's got a cat-lion, and twenty minutes later they've created a website about their alternate personality the were-vulpecapriequileouni-dragipenguwartoviraptor." (more):

Rachel K. Clark with two griffins, but much else that's interesting. I enjoyed her paleology gallery.

L.W. Perkins has some very arresting fantasy art, including griffins, dragons and mermaids.

Sandra SanTara / Windwolf Studio , including the unusual "Gryphon Wheel"

Elfwood: Alicia 'Griffon Lady' Hamm , a prodigious griffin artist who also makes stuffed-animal griffins, sometimes on commission. Hamm's homepage catalogues her impressive collection of griffin collectibles.

Classical Mosaics / Norman Tellis goes step-by-step through the creation of his striking gryphon mosaic.

Lady Gryphon's Mythical Realm, with info and some images (more images in the second gallery). Lady Gryphon's Mythical Realm is an impressive site, covering various legendary or literary individuals (Arthur, Ophelia), mythical races (Elves, Faeries), and so forth. She also has a page devoted to Hippogriffs.

"Sidian Silverhawke" has a dragiffon, and an antlered griffon-beast called "Garphoon." Her adult gallery cannot (or will not!) be described.

Cara Mitten has some very interesting griffon art, unfortunately available only through lists of filenames.

Tarnished Images: Ruth Thompson, striking fantasy art.

Lorraine Olson (Elfwood) has one (cute) baby hippogriff.

Lilleah Adora West (Elfwood). West has some interesting work. From her griffin work, the "life size replica of a hippogriff" NeighClaw The HippoGriff pops out!

Jill Martin (Elfwood). One griffon.

"S.U.R." Talented Russian surrealist with a vivid, disturbing imagination. His "Gryphon" bears an absurdly over-endowed female nude in a terrible dream-landscape. I enjoyed his "Women and War 1" with a dog looking out the window onto the ocean, half of a naked girl on the floor, and a lit birthday cake in a suitcase.

Fragile Wings / Josh Middelkamp. One griffon. Many dragons.

Walter S. Arnold, Sculptor/Stone Carver.

Jana 'Maly' Angeline Hill (Elfwood). A few griffins and some amazing costumes. Ms. Hill designed the "Gryphicons" on the Gryphboard.

Erin 'Naryu' Prince . Her Elfwood site has only one griffin I can find, but she designed the witty holiday logo of the Gryphboard.

B.L. Render / Bloodsong.

ASFA: John R. Gray III. His ASFA entry has one dragon and one griffin.

The Artwork of Anthony Waters. Science fiction and fantasy, with a TSR griffin.

Jennifer O'Meara's Dragon Dreams. Meara has some striking stuff—dragons, angels, mermaids, even a griffin. Unfortunately, the posted sizes are often small.

Nemia Rucker / The Rucker Homepage. Stylish angels, mermaids and dragons. One griffin.

DracoArt Studios / The Fantasy Art of John Chandler.

Goldenwolfen / Christy Wilcomb.

The Art Of Michael Whelan. Whelan has one haunting piece, seninels, touching on griffons, but my favorite is surely the Cthulhu piece that adorned the popular Del Rey edition of Lovecraft—how that picture freaked me out when I was young!

Rachael Doran on Elfwood. Unlike some Elfwood artists, she has a couple different styles. I like her watercolour/gouache works, although there aren't any griffons among them.

Carina 'CeL' Larsson (Elfwood) , with two griffons and a hippogriff. See also her homepage.

Nicole Gramlich (Elfwood)

Giovanna Guimaraes (Elfwood). Brazilian Elfwood-ist with some striking gryphons.

Vasileios Papadimitriou's Elfwood gallery. Papadimitriou has one animated griffon, and quite a few dragons.

Nightlyre's Realm / Sarrah Phipps, "mostly furries and dragons, and some characters from various stories and RPGs I've been involved in."

Kimberely Goodwin.

Rebecca Kemp / www.wildlife-fantasy.com has some striking silhouettes, including a griffon.

Marshall Vandruff has completed a series of attractive and distinctive Alice in Wonderland pictures (including the gryphon), and is seeking a publisher. Vandruff also sells a video called Draw 123, which teaches children how to draw animals, monsters and others.

Kassandra 'Nathradas' Karas (Elfwood) one hippogriff, many dragons.

Ana Teresa 'Catwings' Campaniço (Elfwood). 19-year-old Portuguese artist.

Lauren D. Eaves (Elfwood), college student at Willamette.

"TaSheena Fogle" (Elfwood)

Maya R. Hirschman , with a funny take-off on My Little Pony.

Alison Talia Byers. I enjoyed her Happy Hippo("part horse, part dolphin, and has the coloring of a koi.")

Gryphonheart Studios/ Traci Vermeesch, "fantasy and anthro artist." Her art can mostly be found here.

Xenia Eliassen / Swandog Studio does a wide variety of different styles, from the ever-present "furries" to the—to my eye&,dash;considerably more interesting work with Celtic and even Byzantine roots.

Jody A. Lee. One White Gryphon, much striking fantasy art.

Griffin head buttons by Dee Dreslough.

Wings of Imagination / Brian Tiemann ("Furry and Fantasy" art).

Sofia 'Nevershade' Lantz (Elfwood) .

Terra Jean Steenwyk, who assembled the excellent Hippogriffs of Elfwood tour.

Renee 'unsane' Keyes (Elfwood), "hippogriff and coffee stains."

Margaret A. Hammond (Elfwood)

Christina E. Chang . One hippogriff, more mermaids and dragons.

Graham Piggott, clay sculptor (Bladon, Oxfordshire)

Collections

The Hermitage Museum. The Hermitage has an extremely rich collections of Scythian, Pazyryk and Bosporan (Ukranian-Greek) art. And what art it is—much of it in wood, leather and even fabric preserved by the acidic, anerobic grave environments. The objects themselves reveal the art history, eg., with reference to a Scythian Bronze Plaque (4c. BC):

"Adopted from oriental mythology but interpreted in a new way, this was perhaps the Scythians' favourite fabulous creature."

"The calathos's surface is completely covered with relief representing young barbarians (Arimaspi) fighting griffins, which recalls the myth of the griffins guarding gold, frequently illustrated in the art of the Bosporan kingdom."

Insecula: Encyclopedia of Art and Architecture has a dozen or so items from the Met, Louvre and Ephesus.

Web Archive: Gryphon Gallery from Tirya's The Gryphon's Eyrie.

Griffin Image Collection put together by Mike Bailey, commemorating his newborn son Griffin (a cutie). Mike has also assembled a short What is a Griffin?

The Gryphon In Art and The Gryphon In Modern Art (read: "Contemporary"), from James Scott Spaid's The Gryphon Pages.

Medieval manuscripts in Holland.

The Met in New York has a number of striking griffon artifacts, including a 4c. BC medallion of a griffon biting an Arimaspean. Here's a search.

Breath-taking scenes from Gustav Dore's illustrations for Orlando Furioso by Ariosto—the hero rides a hippogriff—from the wonderful Gustav Doré Gallery.

Fantasy Art by Gregory J Griffin has some odd, haunting angels, but only one Griffin.

The British Museum has a number of ancient griffons.

Hippogriffs of Elfwood, a "guided tour" (click the icon on the right), put together by Terra Jean Steenwyk.

1584 German edition of Pliny's Natural History with a griffon picture, and other sundry wonders. See also Aldrovandi Ulisse's Monstrorum historia (1642)

National Library of the Netherlands Griffon iconography search.

Fantasy Age gryphon gallery. There aren't many griffins—and some are seen elsewhere. The Dragon and Faery galleries are impressive.

Griffins in St. Petersburgh, taken by Dennis Popov.

"Griffins I found on the web " from Gary Griffin, supplementing a Griffin Genealogy (the descendants of Lunsford Griffin, North Carolina)

The emperor Gallienus (253-268) gryphon coins from Jim's Coins of Gallienus' Zoo

Gretchen Ophelia Evenstar Sveda.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has a few griffon artifacts, but very poor search facilities, so here's a Google search on their site.