Legendary ‘Dune’ Illustrations by John Schoenherr (9 pictures)
Frank Herbert is purported to have said that John Schoenherr was “the only man who has ever visited Dune.”
choenherr’s illustrations are among the most celebrated of science fiction artworks; he showed that science fiction art could be mature and painterly, worlds away from the lurid pulp exaggerations the genre had cultivated since its inception. The first artist to tackle the desert planet Arrakis, his Dune illustrations in particular have become archetypes by which Frank Herbert’s universe is visualized.