Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Portrait of John Hanford Van Gorden
1963
Burlingame Studio
USA
Photograph on paper
frame: 42-1/2"h x 32-1/2"w x 2"d
Gift of United Methodist Homes, Endwell, New York
2002.013

Bust-length portrait of John H. Van Gorden wearing glasses with white shirt, blue neck tie and black suit; on left lapel is Scottish Rite eagle lapel pin. Subject is turned toward proper right and looks forward. Marked in yellow paint in the lower right hand corner "Burlingame / 63".

A life-long Mason, author, and retired business executive, John H. Van Gorden (1899-2002) served as chairman of the Scottish Rite Supreme Council's library and museum committee during the founding of the Scottish Rite Masonci Museum & Library. He was also among the new institution's first trustees. To acknowledge his support of the Museum's library, it is now called the Van Gorden-Williams Library & Archives. For further information, see Burgess, Richard B., et al., "A Sublime Brotherhood: Two Hundred Years of Scottish Rite Freemasonry in the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction," 2013, p.92.