 Examples of his work are 'Cape Cod', 'Bright Lights', 'Trees in Winter' and 'Pink Roofs – Taxco' (1944), the latter today in the collection of The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.Gordon was fluent in Spanish and traveled frequently to Mexico by car to paint out of the way places.He is credited by name in the 1957 English language edition of the book "Pratero and I" by the 1956 Literature Nobel prize winner Juan Ramón Jiménez for having helped translate the first 18 chapters.