The Making of “The Island of the Dead.”
The Making of the Island of the Dead
The park was still in its “Blue Sky” phase and the artist Gale Yance had the idea of turning Arnold Böcklin’s “Island of the Dead” into a theme park attraction.
Arnold Böcklin made several versions of the work, but one of them became iconic.
It is a lone island covered by cypress trees that houses bleak stone structures being approached by two men in a small row boat.
