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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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