Gordon Wetmore

Gordon Wetmore has created portraits of many handsome, distinguished, and winsome subjects. English nobility, President Richard M. Nixon, Jack Nicklaus, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Leon Uris, Princess Grace, Prince Rainier and Prince Albert of Monaco are included among his sitters.

Wetmore's painting assignments have taken him all over the world during the last three decades. In the course of his career he has flown over one million miles and has made more than twenty trips to Europe and the Middle East. With his family, he has lived and worked in Ireland, France, and England. His paintings are in collections around the globe, including those of the Royal Palace of Monaco, the Knessett in Jerusalem, the White House, and Harvard, Duke, and Emory Universities.

Wetmore earned a degree in art and continued his studies at the Art Students League in New York. He was associated for many years with the National Portrait Seminars in New York.

Wetmore is co-founder and Chairman of the Portrait Society of America. In 1978 and 1998, a collection of Wetmore's paintings was published in the best-selling art book, Promised Land, with accompanying text by noted author Leon Uris and Israeli statesman Abba Eban.

Other books of his work include Ireland, Portrayed by Gordon Wetmore, with text by the artist and a foreword by the late Princess Grace of Monaco. In 2004 Vanishing Kingdoms was published in Ireland by Lilliput Press. He has been featured in International Artist and American Artist magazine.


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