biography of Boris Bernhard GORDON (1888-1976)

Birth place: Bern, Switzerland

Addresses: Wash., DC, Los Angeles; Texas

Profession: Painter

Studied: Royal Acad., London; Acad. of Art, Munich

Work: Portraits, U.S. Capitol (including those of Champ Clark, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Wilbur Mills); portraits, State Capitols

Comments: He came to the U.S. in 1907, serving in the Marine Corps during WWI, and settled in Wash., DC, where he painted portraits of political and other important personages, including President Eisenhower, Hoover and Truman, Will Rogers and Shirley Temple (at age 6).

Sources: McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.