Jan Gordon and Steven Spurrier worked with Norman Wilkinson during WW1 on developing dazzle designs for ships, intended to confuse enemy observers. The dazzle for HMS Southampton is known to have been designed by Jan Gordon (see https://www.janandcoragordonart.com/2021/07/jan-gordons-ww1-dazzle-design-for-hms.html ).

In an article about the Gordons in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette for December 4th, 1927, Jan Gordon is credited (probably with exaggeration) with being "chief designer of dazzle camouflage during the World war."

See: http://janandcoragordonart.blogspot.com/2014/03/jan-gordon-1927-shocks-in-modern-art.html

Please see the following articles for further details:

- https://www.janandcoragordonart.com/2021/07/jan-gordons-ww1-dazzle-design-for-hms.html

- http://janandcoragordonart.blogspot.com/2016/12/jan-gordon-and-wwi-dazzle-ship-painting.html

- http://janandcoragordonart.blogspot.com/2015/03/jan-gordon-and-dazzleship-at-little-art.html

- http://janandcoragordonart.blogspot.com/2014/05/dazzle-painting-in-war-time.html

- http://janandcoragordonart.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-copy-of-modern-french-painters-1923.html

- http://janandcoragordonart.blogspot.com/2014/03/jan-gordon-and-dazzle-painting-of-ships.html

- http://lifeartearth.blogspot.com/2013/02/camouflage-in-nature-and-war.html

- https://www.janandcoragordonart.com/2020/11/jan-gordon-and-dazzle-scheme.html , recording 9/11/1917 appointment as temporary lieutenant and demobilisation on 1/12/1919.


Jan Gordon also wrote (under pseudonym John Salis or his own name) on war art; see for example the following:

- http://janandcoragordonart.blogspot.com/2015/03/jan-gordon-as-salis-on-paul-nashs-war.html

- http://janandcoragordonart.blogspot.com/2015/02/jan-gordon-on-john-singer-sargents.html

Jan Gordon's own WW1 war paintings can be seen here: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/view_as/grid/search/makers:jan-godfrey-jervis-gordon-18821944