Luis Rey
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Artwork by Rey
Luis V. Rey (born 1955) is a Spanish-Mexican artist and illustrator, a 1977 graduate of the San Carlos Academy, (UNAM). He is best known for his innovative work in the field of dinosaur paleoart, for example in conjunction with Robert T. Bakker, promoting awareness of the developing evidence for feathered dinosaurs. He is an active member of the SVP (Society of Vertebrate Paleontology [1]) and of the Dinosaur Society (UK)[2]. Luis Rey was the main illustrator for Dr. Thomas R. Holtz Jr.'s Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages (2007), and he won the Two-Dimensional Art category for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's 2008 Lanzendorf-National Geographic PaleoArt Prize.[1]
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- ^ "Past award winners and grant recipients". Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
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Categories:
- 1955 births
- Living people
- Mexican illustrators
- Mexican people of Spanish descent
- National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
- Mexican emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Paleoartists