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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 14, 2020) – A new exhibition in the University of Kentucky s Albert B. Chandler Hospital’s Hamilton Gallery displays the work of Captain William E. Jordan, an artist who made remarkable color drawings after losing his vision to glaucoma.
Captain William E. Jordan – Captain is his name, not his title – was abandoned as an infant on the steps of a Tennessee church and grew up in orphanages and foster families in Georgia, Alabama and Pennsylvania. He served, and was wounded, in World War I and spent his post-war years in various jobs and business ventures before settling as an accountant in Florida.