Jan and Cora Gordon: Early Shows (1910-11) reported in American Art News

In Jan Gordon 's "GRADUS AD ... MONTPARNASSUM" (Blackwood's, March 1929, under his "Salis" pseudonym), he writes, "In retrospect it is not the final success but precisely the early years of struggle, the lower slopes of Parnassus, which recur to the memory with a pleasing flavour." He describes their first four shows, one in Buxton, England, one in Ghent, Belgium and two in Paris. Jan and Cora Gordon exhibited their paintings and etchings publicly from 1909 onwards. Their initial small post-marriage Buxton show was followed by an exhibition in Ghent , which was shared with a German friend. A motif from one painting dating from the time of that Ghent exhibition was later discussed at length in " A Step-ladder to Painting " (1934). According to the story, the opening of the first of the Paris shows, at the studio of Henri Manuel , coincided with the fall of the Ministry (perhaps January 2012 since the next government overthrow was...