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'''Allan Holder Jordan''' (1898-1982) was an Australian painter, printmaker and teacher. |
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* 1931, 3 November - 17 December: Group show with [[John Shirlow]], [[Esther Paterson]] and [[Charles Nuttall]]. Fine Art Galleries, Melbourne<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=3 November 1931 |title=Australian Artists : Work at the Fine Art Galleries |pages=5 |work=The Age}}</ref> |
* 1931, 3 November - 17 December: Group show with [[John Shirlow]], [[Esther Paterson]] and [[Charles Nuttall]]. Fine Art Galleries, Melbourne<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=3 November 1931 |title=Australian Artists : Work at the Fine Art Galleries |pages=5 |work=The Age}}</ref> |
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* 1932, from 29 November: Joint show with Dorothy Lungley at Everyman'a Library, 332 [[Collins Street, Melbourne|Collins Street]]<ref name=":2" /> |
* 1932, from 29 November: Joint show with Dorothy Lungley at Everyman'a Library, 332 [[Collins Street, Melbourne|Collins Street]]<ref name=":2" /> |
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* 1933, from 16 October; Annual exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria, opened by the Lieutenant-Governor [[William Irvine (Australian politician)|Sir W. Irvine]]. Lower Melbourne Town Hall.<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 October 1933 |title=The Arts And Crafts Society : Annual Exhibition. |pages=5 |work=The Age}}</ref> |
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* 1934, to 29 September: Newman Gallery; group show with sixteen other exhibitors, including [[John Shirlow]], Victor Cobb, Oscar Binder, J. C. Goodhart, [[Sydney Ure Smith]], [[Jessie Traill|Jessie C. Traill]], Harold Herbert, [[John C. Goodchild]], Cyril Dillon and [[Charles Nuttall]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 September 1934 |title=Art Notes : Etchings on view |pages=7 |work=The Age |publication-place=Melbourne}}</ref> |
* 1934, to 29 September: Newman Gallery; group show with sixteen other exhibitors, including [[John Shirlow]], Victor Cobb, Oscar Binder, J. C. Goodhart, [[Sydney Ure Smith]], [[Jessie Traill|Jessie C. Traill]], Harold Herbert, [[John C. Goodchild]], Cyril Dillon and [[Charles Nuttall]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 September 1934 |title=Art Notes : Etchings on view |pages=7 |work=The Age |publication-place=Melbourne}}</ref> |
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* 1943, from 1 December; Inclusion in a group show of ninety-one paintings and etchings with [[Arnold Shaw]], [[Max Meldrum]], John Rowell, [[James Quinn (artist)|Jas. Quinn]], John Farmer, [[Polly Hurry|Mary Hurry]], [[Dora Serle]], Margaret Pestell, [[Dora Wilson]], [[Isabel May Tweddle|Isabel Tweddle]], [[Aileen Dent]], [[Murray Griffin]], Geo. Colville, and Victor Cog. [[Hawthorn, Victoria|Hawthorn]] Library.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 December 1943 |title=Art exhibition at Hawthorn |pages=4 |work=The Age}}</ref> |
* 1943, from 1 December; Inclusion in a group show of ninety-one paintings and etchings with [[Arnold Shaw]], [[Max Meldrum]], John Rowell, [[James Quinn (artist)|Jas. Quinn]], John Farmer, [[Polly Hurry|Mary Hurry]], [[Dora Serle]], Margaret Pestell, [[Dora Wilson]], [[Isabel May Tweddle|Isabel Tweddle]], [[Aileen Dent]], [[Murray Griffin]], Geo. Colville, and Victor Cog. [[Hawthorn, Victoria|Hawthorn]] Library.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 December 1943 |title=Art exhibition at Hawthorn |pages=4 |work=The Age}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 07:00, 21 March 2022
Allan Holder Jordan (1898-1982) was an Australian painter, printmaker and teacher.
Career
Born in Melbourne in 1898, Allan Jordan worked mainly in woodcuts and wood engraving and was an influential teacher in printmaking and book arts in Australia. His oeuvre numbers sixty graphic prints, twenty designed and illustrated small books and seventy-one bookplates, as well as drawings, paintings, pastels and small mosaics, a body of work noted by Robert Littlewood "for its consistent quality of design and draftsmanship combined with the expert manner in which the works have been created."[1]
Littlewood identifies "three notable areas of interest in Jordan's creative effort: linocuts and colour woodcuts in the 1930s; book design and illustration in the 1940s; and bookplate design for two decades from 1939 until 1958."[1]
Amongst his work are five wood engravings for Joseph O'Dwyer's The Turning Year 1944, and designs for Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, in the 1940s, a series of booklets printed on the cheap paper then available and sold at 1 shilling and sixpence, which were written by Frank Clune, each dealing with some aspect of Australian history.[2]
His Ex Libris bookplates often employ intricate rebuses to characterise their owners, and such is the case with that he created for World War Two hero Russell Francis Wright MBE(1920-2012).[1][3] His prints and paintings are in national and international collections.
Jordan died in 1982. P. Neville Barnett remembered Jordan as "a genial character in a quiet, ingrained, good-natured way."[1]
Reception
Jordan's work in a 1931 group show was praised as "the most unique of the four contributors,"for his fifteen color and black prints from wood blocks" and picked out for "an outstanding print in black, Treasure Ship, admirably drawn and full of movement."[4]
Of a joint exhibition he held in Melbourne in 1932 with Dorothy Lungley, the Age reviewed his linocuts, etchings an and drypoints, describing the colour prints as "uniformly good in execution and conception, and from the purely decorative point of view, are in advance of most of the things we have seen Iately produced by this process," but noted that while "the etchings are artistic in execution," they "might have been cleaner in line in some cases."[5]
Teaching
Jordan was Head of the Swinburne Art School, retiring in 1959.[6][7]
Exhibitions
- 1931, 3 November - 17 December: Group show with John Shirlow, Esther Paterson and Charles Nuttall. Fine Art Galleries, Melbourne[4]
- 1932, from 29 November: Joint show with Dorothy Lungley at Everyman'a Library, 332 Collins Street[5]
- 1933, from 16 October; Annual exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria, opened by the Lieutenant-Governor Sir W. Irvine. Lower Melbourne Town Hall.[8]
- 1934, to 29 September: Newman Gallery; group show with sixteen other exhibitors, including John Shirlow, Victor Cobb, Oscar Binder, J. C. Goodhart, Sydney Ure Smith, Jessie C. Traill, Harold Herbert, John C. Goodchild, Cyril Dillon and Charles Nuttall.[9]
- 1943, from 1 December; Inclusion in a group show of ninety-one paintings and etchings with Arnold Shaw, Max Meldrum, John Rowell, Jas. Quinn, John Farmer, Mary Hurry, Dora Serle, Margaret Pestell, Dora Wilson, Isabel Tweddle, Aileen Dent, Murray Griffin, Geo. Colville, and Victor Cog. Hawthorn Library.[10]
- 1947, from 23 November; The Bread and Cheese Club's Art Group spring exhibition 272 Post Office-place, Melbourne.[11]
Collections
- The Graham Bookplate Collection; bookplates collected by David H Graham[12]
- National Gallery of Victoria[13]
- Hamilton Art Gallery[14]
- Benalla Art Gallery[15]
- Rijksmuseum[16]
References
- ^ a b c d Littlewood, Robert C, (December 2014). "Bookplate stories: Russell Francis Wright" (PDF). The New Australian Bookplate Society : collectors, bibliophiles, artists and others dedicated to promoting bookplates. 35: 4–5.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Books of the Day : Australian Adventures". The Age. 29 December 1945. p. 9.
- ^ "Captain Russell Wright". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
- ^ a b "Australian Artists : Work at the Fine Art Galleries". The Age. 3 November 1931. p. 5.
- ^ a b "Art Notes : Color Prints And Etchings". The Age. 29 November 1932. p. 5.
- ^ McCulloch, Alan; McCulloch, Susan; McCulloch Childs, Emily (2006). The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art. Fitzroy, Vic.; Carlton, Vic.: Aus Art Editions ; in association with the Miegunyah Press. p. 561. ISBN 978-0-522-85317-9. OCLC 1135181250.
- ^ Hames, Bernard (1960). "Interview with Allan Jordan (1960 Swinburne Jubilee Interviews 07 of 15)" (PDF).
- ^ "The Arts And Crafts Society : Annual Exhibition". The Age. 16 October 1933. p. 5.
- ^ "Art Notes : Etchings on view". The Age. Melbourne. 18 September 1934. p. 7.
- ^ "Art exhibition at Hawthorn". The Age. 2 December 1943. p. 4.
- ^ "Club Show". The Age. 25 November 1947. p. 4.
- ^ "ATL: Unpublished Collections". tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
- ^ "Allan Jordan works". National Gallery of Victoria Collections.
- ^ "Allan Jordan". Hamilton Gallery. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
- ^ www.bibliopolis.com. "Parrots by Allan Jordan, Australian on Josef Lebovic Gallery". Josef Lebovic Gallery. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
- ^ "Ex libris van S.V. Hagley, Allan Jordan, 1908 - 1982". Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 2022-03-21.