Gordon Langdon

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:

California Agriculture and Industry