Theodore "Ted" Gordon was born in Kentucky in 1924. His
intricate, intense and obsessive drawings have brought him
fame throughout the world. His work has long been collected
and shown in Europe before it became popular in this
country. The Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne,
Switzerland has a collection of his work and did a
one-person exhibit ... and has often been the only American
"outsider" shown in European collections. The American
Visionary Art Museum has an outstanding collection of his
work. His pieces are also in the permanent collections of
the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American
Art, the Museum of American Folk Art, the Milwaukee Art
Museum and others. When Gordon begins one of his drawings,
he does not have a clear vision of how it will come out, but
every face is a "self portrait" even though he may appear as
a famous newscaster, a Mafia Don, a nursing home resident.
He works in black and white as well as in color, always on
poster board.
SOLD To His Alarm 14 x 12 SOLD Dapper Proletarian 8 x 10 $285 SOLD In Debt Again 18 x 22 framed $1,200 SOLD Exam Day 17 x 14 $700 Gray Power Trip 12 x 14 framed $700 SOLD High Tech Seer 12 x 14 $600 SOLD Lab Mutation 12 x 14 $600
