Arnold Shore b. 5 May 1897

Also known as Arnold Shaw, Arnold Joseph Victor Shore
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Designer (Glass & metal Artist / Designer)
Influential mid 20th century Melbourne modernist painter, teacher, critic and cartoonist. Shore began his career designing stained glass. In the 1920s he consistently supported Post-Impressionist works. With George Bell he founded the Bell-Shore school.
Tags: Melbourne modernism, Art education, Art criticism, Landscape painting
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painter and cartoonist, worked in Melbourne and is known as a painter. NGV has a couple of comical drawings including Arnold Shore sends Season’s Greetings – also talks! 1949 pen and ink. There is some speculation that the gallery may also have One Portrait is Sometimes Nine in their collection.

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Date written:
1996
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2007

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Other occupations
  • Teacher (ANZSIC code: 81) 1932 - 1936 Bell-Shore School, Bourke St, Melbourne, Vic.
  • Guide Lecturer 1948 - 1957 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
  • Art Critic (ANZSIC code: 90) 1949 - c.1963 Melbourne, Vic.
  • Teacher (ANZSIC code: 81) 1932 - 1936 Bell-Shore School, Bourke St, Melbourne, Vic.