The Jan and Cora Gordon pages.
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  • 1 The seeds of obsession and a biographers problem
  • 2 Jan Gordon early days, paris, marriage, life till 1914
  • 3 Cora Gordon née Turner, her early life in paris before marriage
    • lady art students in paris
  • 4 The Serbian adventure feb-nov.1915
  • 5 1916 Back in London, and short of cash.
  • 6 Jan Gordon and Dazzle camouflage 1917-1919
  • 7 Jan Gordon's art as a commissioned war artist, Royal Naval Medical section
  • 8 Books by Jan and Cora Gordon
  • 9 Art of Jan Gordon
  • 10 Art of Cora J Gordon,
  • A slide show of pre 1914 Paris as Jan and Cora would have known it
  • early radio and TV involvement
  • On Wandering Wheels, USA Eastcoast, Hollywood and a heart attack
  • Three Lands on Three wheels, a 2012 re edit
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  • Old Najac in photos as Jan and Cora would have seen it 1923
    • Najac and the 2007 re-issue of Two Vagabonds in Languedoc
  • " Cafe des Roses" again a disguised auto-biographical yarn from the New Witness
  • "Gradus Ad Montparnassum" from Blackwoods Magazine, an auto biographical yarn from Jan
  • Jan Gordon's obituary from the studio and the Jack Bilbo connection 1944
  • Contact @janandcoragordon
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  • Rue Cherche Midi and the Museum of the Worthless
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  • 2016 3 wheels
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In 1917 Jan Gordon was appointed a Lieutenant in the RNVR in order to work with Norman Wilkinson, the inventor of the top secret Dazzle camouflage for navy vessels.
He worked at the Royal Academy designing these complex patterns.

more coming soon
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A scan of a poor photocopy of an article by Jan Gordon Lieut,RNVR as he was in 1918. from the short lived periodical  "Land and Water" run by Hilaire Belloc from 1914-20.

One of the first articles to explain the basis of the thinking behind the development of Dazzle Camouflage

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A rare illustration in colour of an un-named merchant vessel in Dazzle paint demonstrates the startling effect of the schemes.
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