biografía de Boris Bernhard GORDON (1888-1976)

Lugar de nacimiento: Bern, Switzerland

Direcciones: Wash., DC, Los Angeles; Texas

Profesión: Painter

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

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

Comentarios: 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).

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