J. (Julian) Trousdale Haden                                                                           
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Q.  Who was J. Trousdale Haden?

Julian Trousdale Haden (who went by the name "J. Trousdale Haden") was an artist whose work spanned the first half of the twentieth century.  He was born September 9, 1886 in Nashville, Tennessee and died January 18, 1963 in Nashville, Tennessee at age 77.  He was 5'8" tall and weighted no more than 135 lbs. for most of his adult life.  He was educated in Nashville, attended Fogg High School 1901-1903, and attended Peabody College (merged with Vanderbilt University in 1979) for two years 1903-1905.  He documented his coursework at Peabody as "Special." 

He was primarily an artist, a painter, who also did architectural drawings, graphic illustrations, and maps.  He worked as a draftsman starting in 1918 and retired from a position with the State of Tennessee Highway Division in 1958 at age 72 with 30 years service.  During these years he did architectural drafting,  plans, mapping and designing.  He did not work from 1930-1932. 

His body of art works consists primarily of paintings in oil, drawings in pastel and in charcoal on paper, and India ink drawings on paper.  The oil paintings and drawings are landscapes and portraits.  Many of the India ink drawings were sign commissions or undertaken for commercial sale and consisted of icon like drawings for reproduction on cards and ex libris bookplates.

 

 

                                  

Like many Americans of his generation, he did not travel great distances during his lifetime.  He traveled in his home state of Tennessee and visited Chicago during the World's Fair, and traveled once to see his sister in New York.  He also traveled to Florida where he bought a piece of property which he eventually sold.  He never traveled overseas.

On November 20, 1918, he married Viola Pratt (January 16, 1894 -   ) and had one son Robert Browning Haden born December 16, 1919.  Robert married Janine Yvonne Achillas-Achillopulo Haden, a French citizen in Paris, France, in 1946,  and they had one child Josephine Haden.

                                                           

 



 


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