Gordon Currie

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.