American painter
Leon Gordon (1889–1943) was an American landscape and portrait painter, illustrator, and sculptor. He lived and worked in California,
New York (state) , Florida, and the
Russian Federation .
Gordon was born in 1889 in
Borisov , modern day Belarus (then part of the Russian Empire). He later moved to the United States where he studied at the
Art Institute of Chicago .
[1]
During his life, he painted portraits of
Willa Cather ,
[2]
[3]
Dorothy Gish ,
[4]
Will Rogers ,
[5]
President Calvin Coolidge ,
Benjamin Barr Lindsey ,
[6]
Winston Churchill ,
John L. Lewis and
Helen Keller .
[7] His work was sold by
Earl Stendahl .
[8]
While he lived in New York, Gordon was a member of the
Society of Independent Artists , and took part in their 1917 exhibition.
[9]
In 1930,
Good Housekeeping magazine commissioned Gordon to paint twelve portraits of "the twelve greatest American women"
[10] (including
Eleanor Roosevelt ,
[11]
Grace Abbott
[10] and
Florence Sabin
[12] ) which were published once a month in the magazine through 1931.
[13]
Gordon's portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt is included in the
National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
[14] His portrait of
President Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippines is held in the permanent collection of the Presidential Museum and Library at
Malacañang Palace in
Manila .
[15]
Gordon died of a heart attack on December 31, 1943, in
Tallahassee, Florida , where he had been painting the portrait of the parents of then US senator
Claude Pepper .
[16]
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^ Willa Cather (July 2009).
Sapphira and the Slave Girl . U of Nebraska Press. pp. 445–.
ISBN
978-0-8032-1435-4 .
^
Arts Magazine . Art Digest Incorporated. 1931.
^
"Famous movie star sits for portrait" .
Library of Congress .
^ A.J. Liebling (December 10, 2008).
The Telephone Booth Indian . Crown/Archetype. pp. 173–.
ISBN
978-0-307-48066-8 .
^
"Informal portraits, snapshots, news photographs, etc., 1886–1941(?), of Benjamin Barr Lindsey" . October 26, 1886 – via catalog.loc.gov Library Catalog.
^ Willa Cather (1990).
Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters . U of Nebraska Press. pp. 120–.
ISBN
0-8032-6326-0 .
^ Vieira, Mark A. (2013). George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits 1925-1992 .
^ Society of Independent Artists (New York (October 26, 2017).
"Catalogue of the ... Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists ..." The Society – via Internet Archive.
^
a
b
"Abbott, Grace : Photographic Archive : The University of Chicago" . photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu .
^ Robert Henkes (January 1, 1997).
Portraits of Famous American Women: An Analysis of Various Artists' Renderings of 13 Admired Figures . McFarland. pp. 97–.
ISBN
978-0-7864-0326-4 .
^ Elinor Bluemel (1959).
Florence Sabin: Colorado Woman of the Century . University of Colorado Press.
^ Arthur, McKeogh; Magazine, Good Housekeeping (January 22, 1931).
"Letter from Good Housekeeping Magazine to Florence R. Sabin" . profiles.nlm.nih.gov .
^
"Anna Eleanor Roosevelt" . npg.si.edu .
^
"A Guide to Malacañan's Presidential Museum and Library : Philippine Art, Culture and Antiquities" . www.artesdelasfilipinas.com .
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