Illustration for an unpublished edition of Herman Melville's The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, circa 1974. Acrylic on masonite. 585x460 mm; 23⅛x18 inches in 30x23¾-inch frame. Signed in lower left image.
Robert Shore was a prolific illustrator renowned for his contributions to magazines such as Esquire, Time, and Fortune. He illustrated Moby Dick and many other novels for the Macmillan Limited Editions series. His illustration for Billy Budd won the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators in 1966. Shore also had a distinguished teaching career, first at Cooper Union and later at New York's School of Visual Arts. His work has been exhibited at prestigious venues including the National Academy, the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, and the Smithsonian Institution.
