Alda Jourdan
American, 1889-1962
- Names
Jourdan, Alda
Alda Jourdan
Alda Peasley
Alda Peasley-Jourdan
Jourdan, Alda Burke
Alda Burke Jourdan
- Active
- 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
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