Richard Clifton-Dey

Richard Clifton-Dey
Born	(1930-05-29)29 May 1930 Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Died	5 April 1997(1997-04-05) (aged 66)
Nationality	British
Known for	illustrator

Richard Clifton-Dey (29 May 1930 – 5 April 1997) was a British artist. Born in Yorkshire, today he is a highly collectible artist known mostly for Western and science fiction subjects. As in many cases of artwork produced for book covers, most of Clifton-Dey's artwork is not signed. Provenance for all works not signed by the artist is attested by his widow. His most famous work of art may be Behemoth's World, which appeared on the sleeve of the album Cultösaurus Erectus by Blue Öyster Cult.

He started painting in the 1960s and was one of the most highly respected of British illustrators during the 1970s and into the 1980s. Much of his work was for book covers, either for science fiction, fantasy, action-adventure war books, romances, or gothic horror (with some interesting forays into advertising). His cover artwork was used for the Lord Tyger novel by Philip José Farmer in 1974 and reused in 1985. The Dorian Hawkmoon series by Michael Moorcock was issued featuring Richard Clifton-Dey cover art in 1977. The French publishing company Fleuve Noir released several paperbacks from 1981 to 1987 with his artwork.

Along with other well-known artists of his day (Jim Burns, Chris Foss and others), his work was featured in "Heroic Dreams" (Paper Tiger UK 1987).

He has also worked in other genres including non-fiction pop-up books for children including:

• Our Living Earth (1987; text by Gillian Osband)
• Riding in Motion (1988; text by Jonathan Biggs and James Horwood)
• Space: A Three Dimensional Journey (1991; text by Brian Jones)

Artworks

• "Le pont de la rivière Kwaï" by Pierre Boulle (1961)
• "Le Loup De Badenoch" by Joseph E. Chipperfield (1961)
• "Contes et légendes de Wallonie" by Max Defleur (1962)
• "Contes et légendes d'Ecosse Quinel" by Ch. & A. De Montgon (1963)
• "Recits Tirés Du Theatre Grec – Contes et Légendes De Tous Les Pays" by G. Chandon (1963)
• "Stories of Greece and the Barbarians" by Laura Orvieto (1966, 1969)
• "Récits tirés du théâtre grec" G. Chandon (1967)
• "Legends of Britain" by S. Clot, Ch. Quinel and A. De Montgon (1968, 1969) (together with Gaston De Sainte-Croix)
• "Hound Dog Man" Western Pulp Fiction by J. T. Edson (1969)
• "Swords of the Barbarians" by Kenneth Bulmer (1970)
• "Almuric" by Robert E. Howard (1971)
• "Carson of Venus" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1971, 1973)
• "Agent of Chaos" by Norman Spinrad (1972)
• "The Divided Rose" by Jean Evans (1973)
• "The Small Assassin" by Ray Bradbury (1973)
• "The Wizard of Venus" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1973, 1975)
• "Lost on Venus" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1974)
• "Cashelmara" by Susan Howatch (1974)
• "The Masters of Bow Street" by John Creasy (1974)
• "Lord Tyger" by Philip José Farmer (1974, 1985)
• "Nobody on the Road" Geoffrey Rose (1974)
• "A Clear Road to Archangel" by Geoffrey Rose (1975)
• "The Swiss Arrangement" by William Fairchild (1975)
• "Operation Nuke: The Second Cyborg Book" by Martin Caidin (1975)
• "The Love Warrior" by Alan Lacey (1975)
• "Count Brass" Michael Moorcock (1975)
• "Armageddon 2419 AD" by Philip Francis Nowlan (1976)
• "Mystery of the Ancients: Early Spacemen and the Mayas" by Eric & Craig Umland (1976)
• "Keegan: The No-Option Contract" by Brian Ball (1976)
• "The White Dacoit" by Berkely Mather (1976)
• "The Fatal Friends" (Series The Killers #4) by Klaus Netzen (aka Laurence James)
• "Pearl of Blood" (Series The Killers #5) by Klaus Netzen (aka Laurence James) (1975)
• "Silent Enemy" (Series The Killers #7) by Klaus Netzen (aka Laurence James) (1976)
• "The Safe House" by Jon Cleary (1976)
• "The Hill of the Dead" (The Eagles #1) by Andrew Quiller (aka Kenneth Bulmer) (1976)
• "The Land Of Mist" (The Eagles #2) by Andrew Quiller (aka Kenneth Bulmer) (1976)
• "City Of Fire" (The Eagles #3) by Andrew Quiller (aka Kenneth Bulmer) (1976)
• "Sea of Swords" (The Eagles #5) by Andrew Quiller (aka Kenneth Bulmer) (1976)
• "Dream Chariots" by Manning Norvil (aka Kenneth Bulmer) (1977)
• "The Cave Girl" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1977)
• "The Navigator" by Morris West (1977)
• "A Sound of Lightning" by Jon Cleary (1977)
• "The Dawn Attack" by Brian Callison (1977)

• "All Over the Town" by R. F. Delderfield (1977)
• "The Jewel in the Skull: The History of the Runestaff, Book 1" by Michael Moorcock (1977)
• "The Mad God's Amulet: The History of the Runestaff, Book 2" by Michael Moorcock (1977)
• "The Sword Of The Dawn: The History of the Runestaff, Book 3" by Michael Moorcock (1977)
• "The Runestaff: The History of the Runestaff, Book 4" by Michael Moorcock (1977)
• "Masters of the Pit" by Michael Moorcock (1978)
• "Summoned to Darkness" by Anne-Marie Sheridan (1978)
• "The Long Summer" by Alan White (1978)
• "Bagatelle" by Maurice Denuzière (1978)
• "Memoirs of the First Baroness" by Lucinda Baker (1978)
• "The Adventuress" by Daoma Winston (1978)
• "Mills of the Gods" by Daoma Winston (1979)
• "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" by Philip K. Dick (1979)
• "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" by B. Traven (1980)
• "The Immortals of Science Fiction by David Wingrove (1980)
• "Cultösaurus Erectus by Blue Öyster Cult, album cover (1980)
• "Threshold" (aka "The Beginning Place") by Ursula K. Le Guin (1982, 1986)
• "The Orphan" (Book of the Beast #1) by Robert Stallman (1982)
• "The Captive" (Book of the Beast #2) by Robert Stallman (1982)
• "The Beast" (Book of the Beast #3) by Robert Stallman (1983)
• "Jubal Cade 21: The Violent Land" by Charles R. Pike (aka Terry Harknett) (1983)
• "Wasteworld 1: Aftermath" by James Barton (1983)
• "Wasteworld 2: Resurrection" by James Barton (1983)
• "Wasteworld 3: Angels" by James Barton (1984)
• "Wasteworld 4: My Way" by James Barton (1984)
• "Greensight" by Angela Shackleton-Hill (1984)
• "Rebel in Time" by Harry Harrison (1984, 1986)
• "Hardacre's Luck" by C. L. Skelton (1985)
• "Menace under Marswood" Sterling E. Lanier (1985)
• "The Unforsaken Hiero" (Book 2 in the Hiero Series) by Sterling E. Lanier (1985)
• "Master of Morholm" by Timothy Wilson (1986)
• "Greenleaf" by Chloe Gartner (1986)
• "Gods of Riverworld" by Philip José Farmer (1986)
• "Heroic Dreams" by Nigel Suckling (1987)
• "Bounce The Rhine: The Greatest Airborne Operation in History" by Charles Whiting (aka Leo Kessler) (1987)
• "Operation Northwind: The Unknown Battle of the Bulge" by Charles Whiting (1987)
• "Our Living Earth: An Exploration in Three Dimensions" by Gillian Osband (1987)
• "Our Working Earth" by Gillian Osband (1987)
• "Riding in Motion: A Three-Dimensional Guide to Horses for Young People" by Janet Horwood and Jonathan Biggs (1988)
• "Riding in Motion: Pop-up Book" by Janet Horwood (1988)
• "Kindred Spirits" by June Barraclough (1988)
• "On Stranger Tides" by Tim Powers (1988)
• "Monsters" by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh (1989)
• "Space: A Three-Dimensional Journey" by Brian Jones (1991)
• "The Heart of the Rose" by June Barraclough (1994)
• "Vallamont" by Pamela Gayle (1994)
• "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë (1999)
• "The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" by (Editor) George Mann (2001)

External links

• Covers of Fleuve Noir Publications (France)
• YellowHouse: Richard Clifton-Dey
• Richard Clifton-Dey