Gordon Currie(1917-2005)
Gordon Currie was an Australian columnist/artist who migrated to the US
in 1950 and worked as a reporter in television, radio and newspapers
until the mid 2000s, notably for the Los Angeles Mirror, the Motion
Picture Herald, the Hollywood Reporter, the Melbourne Age, the Sydney
Morning Herald, among others. He also was commissioned by major studios
(MGM, 20th Century Fox, etc.) for caricature assignments for studio
art. Throughout the 1950s, he traveled the US with his gallery of
portrait caricatures of the famous of the period, mostly drawn in
person. Every president from Harry Truman through Richard Nixon had sat
for him at one time or another (Ronald Reagan as well when he was
governor), and countless other actors and notable figures. His
portraits of The Beatles are now considered collectors items and
reproductions of these portraits are bought and sold to this day.
