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
The obituary of Jan Gordon Gordon from 'The Studio' magazine May 1944, by Jack Bilbo.
and some obits of Cora  to follow shortly


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A rather obscure survival turned up on the internet some years ago, the original sign board for Jack Bilbo's art gallery in the Haymarket London. Sadly I was unable to buy it but it did lead me to a meeting and interview with Jack Bilbo's daughter.
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more about Jack Bilbo to follow soon.
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  Hover over images for caption and acknowledgements, my thanks to copyright holders. The first five are by kind permission of the National Portrait Gallery. #6 is from Penguin edition, and all others have been gifted to my by friends and relatives of the Gorodns for my own use.