Cemetery art

Hamburg Ohlsdorf cemetery

Cemetery artwork

Old and neglected cemeteries are creepy enough, but these bizarre statues make them even more creepier.

Completed in 1883, the 26 plates Gustave Doré illustrated for Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" were actually not published until after his death on January 23 of that year.

Full of ornate stonework, cemeteries can be beautiful spaces both to mourn the deceased and celebrate the lives of those who have passed. Yet there is more to these places than carvings of skulls, crosses and crossbones. A snapped rose branch, for instance, indicates a life ended too soon. Wheat, meanwhile, signifies a life fully

Paul Revere ran right through here in the still of night - right by where I was sketching. It was a cemetery then, too. He was not on a horse and he was not alerting the locals that the British were coming. Later, the British would indeed come and leave eight colonists dead and ten wounded on the Lexington Green, just a stone's throw away. Revere was racing back to the Reverend Jonas Clark House, where he would help usher John Hancock and Samuel Adams out of town. It would be the second time…

We received an overwhelming response to the challenge to paint a graveyard on location in a limited palette. There were dozens of entri...