BEAUTY: Art--Skeletons and Skulls For Halloween 2026

Image sourced from the Public Domain Image Archive / The Metropolitan Museum

Top to bottom: Vanitas by Kim Cogan; Pleasure by Stephen Mackey; Prosthetic by Miles Cleveland Goodwin; untitled man and skeleton by Xavier Escala; Vanitas Still Life by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1603; Skeleton With Yellow Rose by Katie Gamb; imagine me and you by Spike Milliken

BEAUTY: Painting for Halloween--Emre Tuna (tinypieceofmercury)

For Halloween, here are the wonderful, endless skeletons of artist Emre Tuna (previously here) who goes by the name tinypieceofmercury.

Pieces are for sale on his site:
https://tinypieceofmercury.bigcartel.com/
https://www.instagram.com/tinypieceofmercury/

BEAUTY: Art--Skeletons and Skulls For Halloween 2025

Top to bottom: Skeleton Contemplating a Dead Bird by Seth Becker; The dance of Death: The Death Blow by Thomas Rowlandson, 1816; from In The Garden by William Schmiechen; Dusk by Nick Bleb; a piece from her Broken Lady figurine series by Jessica Harrison: Vanitas by Battista Franco, ca. 1530-1560

BEAUTY: Art--Misc. Skull And Skeleton Art For Halloween 2024

Top to bottom: Bloom by Simón Prades; Memento Mori by Max Slevogt; Death At The Ball by Felicien Rops; The Reaper by Tyra Kleen;  Dancing Skeletons by Kawanabe Kyosai; 

BEAUTY: Painting For Halloween--John Spinks

I love the whimsical skeletons of John Spinks. But I especially love the one on crutches...

John Spinks is represented by Tillou Fine Art.

https://www.tilloufineart.com/artists/john-spinks/series/skeletons

BEAUTY: Art for Day of the Dead--José Guadalupe Posada

The engraving/printmaking art of José Guadalupe Posada is iconic. He lived from 1852 to 1913 working as a lithographer, engraver, and cartoonist (or what might be termed a caricaturist because he made drawings that were later photographed for publications such as "Argos," "Gil Blas" and "Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano.") Pasada worked at a time when photo-mechanical technology was in its infancy but growing in use. Earlier in his career his images were mainly lithographs and engravings. His images are among the most widely seen and his legacy perhaps the most influential of all Mexican artists yet his name has yet to achieve the level of recognition as that of artists such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo or Rufino Tamayo. These classic calaveras images are synonymous with Día de los Muertos itself.

This is arguably Pasada's most famous image, a female skeleton figure called Catrina.

https://www.posada-art-foundation.com/