R.I.P. Robert Shore, 90, in April 2014 (artist/illustrator: Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon," ed. 1970)

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He lived in NYC.

http://www.terapeak.com/worth/easton-press-leather-bound-from-the-earth-to-the-moon-by-jules-verne-illustrat/151811347133/
(3 pictures from "From the Earth to the Moon")

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=170893086

SHORE--Robert, 90. Painter, illustrator, sculptor. Educated at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Boro Polytecnic London, and Art Students League. Staff artist for Stars and Stripes during WWII; paintings commissioned by NASA include the Mercury Atlas rocket liftoff; recognized for illustrating works of Conrad, Melville, and Verne for Limited Editions Club; awarded Society of Illustrators Gold Medal 1966. Fulbright fellow in painting; permanent collections of Smithsonian and NASA. Beloved husband of Marietta, father of Evan and Gigi, cherished teacher for generations of New York City art students.

Published in The New York Times on May 2, 2014

http://www.robertshorepainter.com/
(his site, with 22 paintings - check out a funny one that's #3 in the "Wild" section, involving a bull)

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1463&bih=1016&q=robert+shore+%22jungle+books%22&oq=robert+shore+%22jungle+books%22&gs_l=img.3...1577.1577.0.2107.1.1.0.0.0.0.90.90.1.1.0....0...1ac..64.img..0.0.0.UiXZzrmiKJY
(some of his work from "The Jungle Books" - top row only)

https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+shore+%22heart+of+darkness%22&biw=1463&bih=1016&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir5oXGnsbOAhXF1CYKHYSMAMEQ_AUIDCgA
(pictures from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness")

http://www.robertshorepainter.com/bio/
(bio)

Most of it:

"When I was a kid in the Bronx, I imagined I was a pilot flying on my fire escape airplane. Later during service in World War II I was a Staff Artist for the Stars and Stripes, the Army newspaper, in Paris. I had the privilege of traveling back to Europe on a commission from the Air Force and later of being a witness to the liftoff of Gordon Cooper in the Mercury Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral. Some nine of my paintings of that mission are in the collection of the Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian in Washington and at NASA Space Center in Houston and one even traveled around the U.S. on the Art Train from 2001-03. In between I illustrated Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon for the Limited Editions Club.

"Through the G.I. Bill of Rights I studied fulltime at Cranbrook Academy in Michigan 1948-51 after the Boro Polytecnic in London. I studied painting as well at the Art Students League in NYC, won a Fulbright Fellowship in painting in 1951, first prize at Vanderbilt’s Young Americans Competition for Ceramic Sculpture at America House and continued to sculpt for many years.

"My paintings are in permanent collections of the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C., the Newbury Library, Chicago, Museum of the Cranbrook Academy, U.S. Air Force Art Collection, U. S. Coast Guard Collection, School of Visual Arts Gallery and Museum of the University of Mississippi. My New York gallery affiliation was with the Betsy Marsden Gallery, Union Square, NY. I’ve exhibited my paintings at National Gallery, Washington, D.C., Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, Cooper Union, Syracuse University, Cornell University, University of Pittsburgh, Kansas City Art Institute, Wright, Hepburn and Webster Gallery and the Broome Street Gallery, NYC among others..."

http://gigirosenberg.com/blog/ask-questions-still-can
(bittersweet remembrance by his daughter Gigi)

https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+shore+illustrator&biw=1463&bih=987&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHneGXmsbOAhVEGx4KHSvCB4IQsAQIKQ&dpr=1
(multiple illustrations and paintings)

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-few-more-from-robert-shore.html
(illustrations with ties to Poe, Melville, Hitchcock and Boy's Life)

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2013/03/robert-shore-first-and-foremost-one.html
(old photo and magazine illustrations)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rec.arts.books.childrens/lp709uiRLkc/PMc6SOJbX6oJ;context-place=topic/rec.arts.books.childrens/nzFo9kErU4w
(birthday post from 2014, with links to artwork)

Lenona.

Don Kuenz

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leno...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> He lived in NYC.
>
> http://www.terapeak.com/worth/easton-press-leather-bound-from-the-earth-to-the-moon-by-jules-verne-illustrat/151811347133/
> (3 pictures from "From the Earth to the Moon")
>
> http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=170893086
>
> SHORE--Robert, 90. Painter, illustrator, sculptor. Educated at Cranbrook
> Academy of Art, Boro Polytecnic London, and Art Students League. Staff
> artist for Stars and Stripes during WWII; paintings commissioned by NASA
> include the Mercury Atlas rocket liftoff; recognized for illustrating
> works of Conrad, Melville, and Verne for Limited Editions Club; awarded
> Society of Illustrators Gold Medal 1966. Fulbright fellow in painting;
> permanent collections of Smithsonian and NASA. Beloved husband of Marietta,
> father of Evan and Gigi, cherished teacher for generations of New York
> City art students.
>
> Published in The New York Times on May 2, 2014
>
> http://www.robertshorepainter.com/
> (his site, with 22 paintings - check out a funny one that's #3 in the
> "Wild" section, involving a bull)

LOL. Shore's "Wilderness" section [1] is my favorite. Shore seems to
belong to the "post WWII by a decade or two" art movement (for lack of
better nomenclature).

_Costigan's Needle_ [2] looks intriguing. If it contains time-travel it
definitely belongs on my "to be read" list. But reviewers lead me to
believe that it's more "alternative universe" than "time travel."

Note.

1. http://www.robertshorepainter.com/wilderness
2. https://www.amazon.com/Costigans-Needle-Jerry-Sohl/dp/1494304341

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In article <2016...@crcomp.net>,

Don Kuenz <g...@crcomp.net> said:

> LOL. Shore's "Wilderness" section [1] is my favorite. Shore seems
> to belong to the "post WWII by a decade or two" art movement (for
> lack of better nomenclature).
>

> 1. http://www.robertshorepainter.com/wilderness

Ouch. I'm fine with naturalism in my art, and also with abstract
art, but that one's in an uncomfortable place between the two for
me.

-- wds

Lawrence Watt-Evans

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On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:11:48 -0000 (UTC), Don Kuenz <g...@crcomp.net>
wrote:

>leno...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>_Costigan's Needle_ [2] looks intriguing. If it contains time-travel it
>definitely belongs on my "to be read" list. But reviewers lead me to
>believe that it's more "alternative universe" than "time travel."

It's alternative universe -- or other universe, anyway. Gadget
creates an opening to another reality, trouble ensues.

It's mostly what I think of as a survival story, like _The Survivors_
a.k.a. _Space Prison_ by Tom Godwin, or Heinlein's _Tunnel in the
Sky_.

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On 16 Aug 2016 13:33:59 -0400, William December Starr
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It screams Munch.

Brian
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Lawrence Watt-Evans <l...@sff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:11:48 -0000 (UTC), Don Kuenz <g...@crcomp.net>
> wrote:
>
>>leno...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>>_Costigan's Needle_ [2] looks intriguing. If it contains time-travel it
>>definitely belongs on my "to be read" list. But reviewers lead me to
>>believe that it's more "alternative universe" than "time travel."
>
> It's alternative universe -- or other universe, anyway. Gadget
> creates an opening to another reality, trouble ensues.
>
> It's mostly what I think of as a survival story, like _The Survivors_
> a.k.a. _Space Prison_ by Tom Godwin, or Heinlein's _Tunnel in the
> Sky_.

Thank you. Given your input it seems best for me to just skip this
story. YMMV.

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