
After some intial excursions locally around New York State the Gordons, with the aid of the Perry family chauffeur bought, for $150 an old car, a big old five seater, 6 cylinder sedan of unknown make, certainly not a Ford T, (nor indeed the one illustrated right from Jan's Studio obituary)which the fanciful newspaper report of 5th May [below] stated. In which they set to in order to build a primitive camping car with an arrangement of planks to sleep on and set off in seek of adventure in Connecticut and New England.
The USA they found very different indeed to their European travels where they would seek out the cheapest accomodation in the most picturesque sites. I get the feeling they were smewhat disappointed, much later Cora was quoted as saying "... it wasn't quite their cup of tea...".
However the Gordons wandered on down though the Eastern states as far as Georgia and Atlanta back up via Philadelphia and back to Connecticut at the beginning of November where the trusty and by now very battered and travel worn "Happy Hearse" met its end in a scrapyard for $15.
In the following winter months the Gordons worked they way across the Northern States giving lecture tours. These lecture tours were quite lucrative and provided a steady source of funds. They were always well received and attended.
In Chicago they were even invited to play their music on what turned out to be a rather shambolic radio show.
In Chicago they were even invited to play their music on what turned out to be a rather shambolic radio show.
After their return to New York they had an exhibition of their first USA paintings at the prestigious Weyhe Gallery which received a very favourable review in the New Yorker magazine from the prestigious critic Murdoch Pemberton.
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