Gordon Langdon
1910–1963
1910–1963
Langdon was born in San Francisco on March 9, 1910. After dropping out of his studies at Stanford, Langdon studied at the CSFA. During the 1930s he shared a studio with Ralph Stackpole. After his work on the Tower, Langdon continued to do public art, including a fresco of Nobel physics laureate and CalTech president Robert Andrews Millikan at the library entrance of George Washington High School (Millikan was a PhD student of A.A. Michelson, depicted in "Scientist/Inventor). After service in WWII, he abandoned his art career and moved to Palo Alto where he was engaged in the wholesale hardware business until he died of a brain aneurysm on March 8, 1963.
Works at Coit Tower: