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Alda Jourdan

American, 1889-1962


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Names

Jourdan, Alda

Alda Jourdan

Alda Peasley

Alda Peasley-Jourdan

Jourdan, Alda Burke

Alda Burke Jourdan

Active

Portland

Occupation or Type

painter

photographer

Northwest artist

Oregon artist

Bio

Alda Jourdan was a skilled photographer, author, and teacher as well as an accomplished painter. As Alda Peasley, she and her husband shared a photographic studio from 1914 to 1925. With her second husband Albert Jourdan, also a photographer, she exhibited their realistic photographic art nationally and internationally. Alda Jourdan wrote many articles on art and photography.

Artist biography reproduced with permission from the authors, Oregon Painters: the First Hundred Years (1859-1959), Ginny Allen and Jody Klevit.

Gender

Female

Related People

Spouse: Albert Jourdan (American, active 1920s-1950s)

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