Artist Info
Gordon House
Gordon House, painter and graphic designer (1932-2004). His myriad images were sought after by leading galleries, artists and musicians for well over 40 years.
Born in Wales, moved to Letchworth in the 1930s. He studied, first, at Luton School of Art, then, with the aid of a scholarship, moving on to St Albans School of Art.
Afterwards he worked as an assistant to the ecclesiastical sculptor Theodore Kern.
Between 1952 and 1959, he designed for ICI and, from 1959 and 1961, for the Kynoch Press. By 1961, Gordon became established among a new generation of artists as a painter and designer. The previous year, he had shown his large, bold, hard-edged canvasses at the important London "Situation" exhibition of large-scale abstract painting, and had designed the catalogue for that exhibition.
As the 1960s moved on, Gordon designed for the pop world. He worked for the Beatles, designing their White album and the back of the Sergeant Pepper album, for which his long-time friend Peter Blake designed the front. Later, he designed Wings' first album. He delighted in the creative energy of others, and so could respond to the talents of musicians and artists alike.
Gordon House kept painting throughout his life as a designer.
