Allan Jordan

Allan Jordon was born in 1898 in Elsternwick, the son of Sandhurst-born customs agent James Oliver Jordan and Maud Ethel (née Alleyne) who married in 1897.

Living in Malvern, Jordan's interest at age sixteen was in amateur photography, on the subject of which he contributed three articles, with concise diagrams, to The Australasian Photo-Review, one in the 15 January 1916 edition about making "Photographic Bookplates,"{{Cite journal |last=Jordan |first=Allan |date=15 January 1916 |title=Photographic Book-plates |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-430400454 |journal=Australasian Photo-Review |publisher=Baker and Rouse |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=30–31}} another on building a home darkroom in a bathroom,{{Cite journal |last=Jordan |first=Allan |date=15 August 1916 |title=A Photographic Darkroom |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-430400454 |journal=Australasian Photo-Review |publisher=Baker & Rouse |volume=23 |issue=8 |pages=432–3}} and one instructing how to use a camera as a solar enlarger.{{Cite journal |last=Jordan |first=Allan |date=15 December 1915 |editor-last=Burke |editor-first=Keast |title=Daylight enlarging with a magazine camera |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/233311937 |journal=Australasian Photo-Review |publisher=Baker & Rouse |volume=22 |issue=12 |pages=670, 673}} His photographs featured in the magazine, and he was also awarded prizes in the A P-R competitions.{{Cite journal |date=15 September 1915 |editor-last=Burke |editor-first=Keast |title=A. P-R. competitions |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-424662412 |journal=Australasian Photo-Review |location=Sydney |publisher=Baker & Rouse |volume=22 |issue=9 |pages=28, 35, 42}}{{Cite journal |last=Jordan |first=Allan |date=15 May 1915 |title=A Rough Day, By Allan Jordan (16 years), Malvern, Vic.Awarded Fourth Prize in the May A.P.R. Competitions for Juniors. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-424506088 |journal=Australasian Photo-Review |volume=22 |issue=5 |pages=Supplement}}{{Cite journal |date=15 October 1915 |title=An At-Home Portrait. By Allan Jordan, Malvern. Vic. Awarded Second Prize in the A.P-R. Competition for October |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-424686860 |journal=Australasian Photo-Review |volume=22 |issue=10 |pages=33}}{{Cite journal |last=Jordan |first=Allan |date=15 July 1915 |title=A Misty Morn. By Allan Jordan. Malvern, Vic. Awarded Fourth Prize in the A.P-R. Competition for July. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-424692613 |journal=Australasian Photo-Review |volume=22 |issue=7 |pages=373}}

Jordan studied at Swinburne Technical College from 1915 to 1919.

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He 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."{{Cite journal |last=Littlewood |first=Robert C |date=December 2014 |title=Bookplate stories: Russell Francis Wright |url=http://www.bookplatesociety.org.au/images/stories/Bookplate_Content/Newsletters/tnabs_no%2035_web.pdf |journal=The New Australian Bookplate Society: Collectors, Bibliophiles, Artists and Others Dedicated to Promoting Bookplates. |volume=35 |pages=4–5}}

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."{{Cite journal |last=Littlewood |first=Robert C |date=December 2014 |title=Bookplate stories: Russell Francis Wright |url=http://www.bookplatesociety.org.au/images/stories/Bookplate_Content/Newsletters/tnabs_no%2035_web.pdf |journal=The New Australian Bookplate Society: Collectors, Bibliophiles, Artists and Others Dedicated to Promoting Bookplates. |volume=35 |pages=4–5}}{{Cite book |last1=Littlewood |first1=Robert C |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900070422 |title=Ten bookplates by Allan Jordan |last2=Jordan |first2=Allan |last3=Lytlewode Press |date=2014 |publisher=Lytlewode Press |isbn=978-1-905611-59-1 |language=English |oclc=900070422}} Jordan exhibited in group shows through the 1930s, and less frequently in subsequent years.

After complaints to the Federal Treasurer that some of Australia's coin designs were heraldically incorrect, action was taken in September 1946, when Prime Minister Chifley, while at Renmmark, was presented with a suggested lyrebird design by Jordan to replace the coat of arms displayed on the sixpence that was claimed to be obsolete. Chifley promised to consider the Jordan's design made in collaboration with Sydney V. Hagley of the Numismatic Society. Ultimately the design of the coin was unchanged.{{Cite news |date=12 July 1947 |title=Design of our coins: Change Suggested |pages=2 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18034644 |access-date=2022-03-22}}

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Amongst his work are five wood engravings for Joseph O'Dwyer's The Turning Year 1944.{{Cite news |date=30 December 1944 |title=Books of the Day |pages=5 |work=The Age |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205995107 |access-date=2022-03-22}}{{Cite book |last=O'Dwyer |first=Joseph |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11066314 |title=The turning year |date=1944 |publisher=Hawthorn Press |location=Melbourne |language=English |oclc=11066314}} Other designs he created for Hawthorn Press, Melbourne in the 1940s included a series of paperback booklets printed on lesser-quality wartime paper and sold at 1 shilling and sixpence, which were written by Frank Clune, each dealing with some aspect of Australian history,{{Cite news |date=29 December 1945 |title=Books of the Day: Australian Adventures |pages=9 |work=The Age |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205647045 |access-date=2022-03-22}}{{Cite book |last1=Clune |first1=Frank |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/220322607 |title=The red heart: sagas of Centralia |last2=Gartner |first2=John |last3=Jordan |first3=Allan |last4=Hawthorn Press |date=1944 |publisher=Hawthorn Press |location=Melbourne |language=English |oclc=220322607}} such as his 1944 Stories of Central Australia.{{Cite journal |date=18 Oct 1944 |title=Clune in Centralia |journal=The Bulletin |volume=65 |issue=3375 |pages=3}}{{Cite news |date=28 December 1944 |title=Central Australia |pages=27 |work=Western Mail |publication-place=Perth |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38561439}}

Jordan joined artists Neville Barnett, Roy Davies, Adrian Feint, Lionel Lindsay and Philip Litchfield in a revival of the bookplate before World War Two.{{Cite journal |last=Ferson |first=Mark |date=June 1988 |title=The Australian Bookplate Collector: A Vanishing Species? |journal=Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries |publisher=Book Collectors' Society of Australia |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=36}} His Ex Libris bookplates often employ intricate rebuses to characterise their owners,{{Cite book |last1=Bidgood |first1=Jeff |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31982601 |title=Australian bookplates: an illustrated collection from members of the Book Collectors' Society of Australia |last2=Ferson |first2=Mark J |last3=Book Collectors' Society of Australia |date=1994 |publisher=The Society |isbn=978-0-646-17489-1 |location=Sydney |language=English |oclc=31982601}} and such is the case with that he created for World War Two hero Russell Francis Wright MBE (1920–2012).{{Cite web |title=Captain Russell Wright |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9363145/Captain-Russell-Wright.html?iframe=true&width=90%25&height=90%25 |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=www.telegraph.co.uk| date=28 June 2012 }}{{Cite web |last=Atkinson |first=Frances |date=2015-11-27 |title=Under the covers: bookplates offer a window into 'untold histories' |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/under-the-covers-bookplates-offer-a-window-into-untold-histories-20151126-gl8qti.html |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}

Jordan's prints and paintings are in national and international collections.

Jordan's work in a 1931 group show was praised in The Age 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."{{Cite news |date=3 November 1931 |title=Australian Artists: Work at the Fine Art Galleries |pages=5 |work=The Age |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203717363 |access-date=2022-03-22}} The Bulletin reviewing the same show reports that "Allan Jordan has been trying to capture some of the subtlety of Melbourne's winter atmosphere per the very difficult medium of the woodblock, and in The Changing Skyline, Exhibition Building and Winter Sunshine, Fitzroy Garden, has succeeded in nabbing some of the bolder contrasts."{{Cite journal |date=18 November 1931 |title=The Palette |journal=The Bulletin |volume=52 |issue=2701 |pages=18}} Artist and critic Harold Herbert also prasied his work in that show, writing that "Mr. Jordan is an accomplished designer and an efficient craftsman."{{Cite news |last=Herbert |first=Harold |date=14 November 1931 |title=Art: At the Fine Art Society's Gallery. |pages=13 |work=The Australasian |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140843682 |access-date=23 March 2022}}

Of a joint exhibition he held in Melbourne in 1932 with Dorothy Lungley, the Age reviewed his linocuts, etchings 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 lately produced by this process," but noted that while "the etchings are artistic in execution," they "might have been cleaner in line in some cases."{{Cite news |date=29 November 1932 |title=Art Notes: Color Prints And Etchings |pages=5 |work=The Age |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204300226 |access-date=2022-03-22}}

File:Swinburne Techincal College 1940.jpgJordan, after being a student, then influential teacher there,{{Cite book |last=National Commercial Banking Corporation of Australia |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11599730 |title=The seventies: Australian paintings and tapestries from the collection of National Australia Bank. |date=1982 |publisher=The Bank |isbn=978-0-909873-34-9 |location=Melbourne, Australia |pages=40 |language=English |oclc=11599730}} was Head of the Swinburne Art School from 1957, retiring in 1959.{{Cite book |last1=McCulloch |first1=Alan |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135181250 |title=The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art |last2=McCulloch |first2=Susan |last3=McCulloch Childs |first3=Emily |date=2006 |publisher=Aus Art Editions; in association with the Miegunyah Press |isbn=978-0-522-85317-9 |location=Fitzroy, Vic.; Carlton, Vic. |pages=561 |language=English |oclc=1135181250}}{{Cite web |last=Hames |first=Bernard |date=1960 |title=Interview with Allan Jordan (1960 Swinburne Jubilee Interviews 07 of 15) |url=https://commons.swinburne.edu.au/file/41d4b45c-f364-4209-a994-4d5da78f11d4/1/swinburne_jubilee_interviews_07-interview_with_allan_jordan-transcript.pdf}}{{Cite news |date=21 August 1963 |title=Fifty years at School |pages=15 |work=The Age}} While senior art lecturer at Swinburne, Jordan wrote an article on "Linocuts" for the November 1934 issue of Manuscripts, which he illustrated with linocuts 'designed, cut and printed by students...'{{Cite book |last1=Butler |first1=Roger |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/174104396 |title=Printed images by Australian artists 1885-1955 |last2=National Gallery of Australia |date=2007 |publisher=National Gallery of Australia |isbn=978-0-642-54204-5 |location=Canberra, A.C.T. |language=English |oclc=174104396}}

During his tenure the school grew from three small studios in which art studies, mostly craftwork, painting and wood carving, were taught by the then Director, Mr. Prior, himself a modeller. Enrolment grew to over 100 full day diploma students and a total of 300 with part time students at the time of Jordan's retirement.

Jordan lived in Deepene in the 1950s,{{Cite news |date=30 April 1954 |title=People, Parties: Three-stone ring |page=7 |work=The Age |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205705996 |access-date=23 March 2022}} at Caversham Court, 763 Esplanade Mornington,{{Cite news |date=30 August 1982 |title=Allan Holder Jordan |pages=16 |work=The Age}} and in retirement with wife Nellie at Red Hill Road, Red Hill,{{Cite news |date=18 May 1967 |title=Law Notices |pages=19 |work=The Age}} then at 23 Monaro Road Kooyong. He first married Elsie (née Male) in 1923, who predeceased him on 21 March 1948.{{Cite news |date=22 March 1948 |title=Family Notices: Death |pages=2 |work=The Argus |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22538813}} He then married Nellie May (née Hale, born 1903) whose death was 29 Apr 1967, well before his own on 17 May 1982 at the Alfred Hospital.{{Cite news |date=19 May 1982 |title=Obituary |pages=26 |work=The Age}}Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 He was cremated at Springvale Cemetery, survived by his only child, a daughter from his marriage with Elsie; trained nurse Marie Elspeth Wright who had been educated at Fintona Girls' School.{{Cite news |date=30 April 1954 |title=Engagements |pages=7 |work=The Age}}{{Cite news |date=30 April 1954 |title=People, Parties: Three-stone ring |page=7 |work=The Age |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205705996 |access-date=23 March 2022}}

P. Neville Barnett remembered Jordan as "a genial character in a quiet, ingrained, good-natured way."

• 1931, 3 November - 17 December: Group show with John Shirlow, Esther Paterson and Charles Nuttall. Fine Art Society Galleries, Melbourne{{Cite news |last=Herbert |first=Harold |date=14 November 1931 |title=Art: At the Fine Art Society's Gallery. |pages=13 |work=The Australasian |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140843682 |access-date=23 March 2022}}
• 1932, from 29 November: Joint show with Dorothy Lungley at Everyman'a Library, 332 Collins Street{{Cite news |date=29 November 1932 |title=Today's News |page=1 |work=The Argus |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4511238}}{{Cite news |last=Herbert |first=Harold |date=10 December 1932 |title=Art: Colour Prints and Etchings |pages=19 |work=The Australasian |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141368008}}{{Cite news |last=Streeton |first=Arthur |date=29 November 1932 |title=Show Of Woodcuts: Charming Colour Prints |pages=5 |work=The Argus |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4511288 |access-date=24 March 2022}}
• 1933, from 3 October: Annual Show of the Victorian Artists' Society, with H. B. Harrison, John Munro, Dorothy Whitehead, Reginald Hicks, A. Montgomery, Charles Lloyd, Alexander Coffey, Ernest Buckmaster, E.R. Jones, H. K. Leask, Herbert Rose, Violet Teague, Dora Serle, Dora Wilson, Norah Gurdon, Aileen Dent, Victor Zelman, Gretchen Leachkau, Theo B. Hansen, S. Grainger, P. Mallon, Ada Whiting, S. Ralph, Hans Heyson, J. G. Felt, A. T. Bernaldo, James McMahon, C. Hills, R. Malcolm Warner, John Rowell, G. F. Turner, Allan Jordan, Murray Griffin, Paul Montford, Wallace Anderson, J. Russell Jackson, Marguerite C. Mahout, at the Society rooms, Albert Street, East Melbourne.{{Cite news |date=3 October 1933 |title=Art Notes |page=7 |work=The Age |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205107758 |access-date=23 March 2022}}
• 1933, from 16 October; Annual exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria, with Bresslern-Roth, Carl Rotky, Thea Proctor, Miss Alsop, E. W. Syme, Dorrit Black, Allan Jordan, opened by the Lieutenant-Governor Sir William Irvine. Lower Melbourne Town Hall.{{Cite news |date=16 October 1933 |title=The Arts And Crafts Society: Annual Exhibition. |pages=5 |work=The Age |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205117626 |access-date=2022-03-22}}{{Cite news |date=16 October 1933 |title=Putting Art Into Craft: Beautiful things at Exhibition |pages=13 |work=The Herald |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article243195779 |access-date=23 March 2022}}
• 1934, to 29 September: 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.{{Cite news |date=18 September 1934 |title=Art Notes: Etchings on view |pages=7 |work=The Age |publication-place=Melbourne |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205881164 |access-date=2022-03-22}} Newman's Gallery, 289 Collins Street, Melbourne{{Cite news |last=Herbert |first=Harold |date=29 September 1934 |title=Art: Etchings |page=16 |work=The Australasian}}
• 1935, from 16 October: Arts and Crafts Society group exhibition, with Murray Griffin, Helen Ogilvie, Margaret Preston, Ethleen Mary Palmer, Adelaide Perry, Sybil Andrews, Jessie Digby, Jocelyn Crowe, Rex Wood, Norma Bull, Allan Jordan, Dorothy Kealing, Anne Montgomerie, and Mary Cecil Allen{{Cite news |author-link=Louis McCubbin|last=McCubbin |first=Louis |date=17 October 1935 |title=Arts and Crafts: Lino cuts, etchings and posters |page=12 |work=The Argus |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11778037 |access-date=23 March 2022}}
• 1936, from 28 September: Victorian Artists' Society Spring Exhibition, with Hans Heysen, Vida Lahey, John Eldershaw, Kenneth Macqueen, Albert Tucker, Len Annois, Thomas Henry Bone, John Loxton, Edward Heffernan, F. R. Carter, Sybil Craig: J. Seton, Dora Wilson, Murray Griffin, Ethleen Palmer{{Cite news |last=Burdett |first=Basil |date=25 September 1936 |title=Good and bad in Spring Art Exhibition |pages=8 |work=The Herald |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article248555562 |access-date=23 March 2022}}
• 1938, 13–22 October; Annual Arts and Crafts Show, Lower Town Hall, Melbourne{{Cite news |date=12 October 1938 |title=Arts And Crafts Show Tomorrow |pages=10 |work=The Herald |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article243399600}}
• 1943, from 1 December; Inclusion in a group show of ninety-one paintings and etchings with Arnold Shore, 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.{{Cite news |date=2 December 1943 |title=Art exhibition at Hawthorn |pages=4 |work=The Age |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206353667 |access-date=2022-03-22}}
• 1946, to 11 July; The Bread and Cheese Club group show, including works by George Browning, Allan Jordan and William Hunter, Myer Art Gallery{{Cite news |date=2 Jul 1946 |title=Art Group Exhibits |pages=5 |work=The Age}}{{Cite news |date=1 July 1946 |title=Bread and Cheese |pages=7 |work=The Herald |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245545935 |access-date=23 March 2022}}{{Cite news |date=9 July 1946 |title=What's On In Melbourne |pages=10 |work=The Herald |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245539001}}{{Cite news |last=McCulloch |first=Alan |date=2 July 1946 |title=Art Shows Reviewed: Social Success In Art: Bread And Cheese Club Art Group |pages=6 |work=The Argus |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22319900}}
• 1947, from 23 November; The Bread and Cheese Club's Art Group spring exhibition 272 Post Office-place, Melbourne.{{Cite news |date=25 November 1947 |title=Club Show |pages=4 |work=The Age |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206061912}}
• 1974, 29 November-11 December: Exhibition of etchings and prints by Norman Lindsay, Kenry Van Raalte, Sydney Ure Smith, John Shirlow, Lionel Lindsay, Victor Cobb, Ernest E. Abbott, Len annois, G. Arnsdell, Victor Watt, George Cope, Molly O'Shea, G. Marler, Herbert Morre, Allan Jordan, Amelia Coats, N. Coventry, Victor Zelman, J. Goodhart, Nutta Buzzart, R. Stockfield, Ben Crosskell, Cyril Dillon, Evelyn Syme, John Borrack, Murray Walker, Herthe Kluge-Pott, Leonard French, Noel Counihan, and Fred Williams at Duvance Galleries.{{Cite book |last=Durance Galleries |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32483406 |title=Catalogue of exhibition of etchings and prints, 29th November-11th December, 1974 at Durance Galleries |publisher=Durance Galleries |year=1974}}
• 2015, 13 June – 16 August: Jordan woodcuts featured in Australia's Robinson Crusoe: The Fabulous Tale of Louis de Rougemont, Art Gallery of Ballarat,{{Cite news |last=Stephens |first=Andrew |date=6 June 2015 |title=A boy's own invention |pages=16 |work=The Age}}

• {{Citation |author1=Julius John Lankes |title=A woodcut manual |publication-date=1932 |publisher=New York H. Holt and Company |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/16853537}}
• {{Cite book |last=O'Dwyer |first=Joseph |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11066314 |title=The turning year |date=1944 |publisher=Hawthorn Press |location=Melbourne |language=English |oclc=11066314}}{{Cite news |last=J.G.M. |date=7 March 1945 |title=Book Reviews: The Turning Year |pages=10 |work=Advocate |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172218970}}
• {{Cite book |last=Clune |first=Frank |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/906327807 |title=The red heart: sagas of Centralia |date=1944 |publisher=The Hawthorn Press |location=Melbourne |language=English |oclc=906327807}}{{Cite news |date=20 September 1944 |title=The Red Heart of Australia |pages=10 |work=Advocate |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172215668}}
• {{Cite book |last=Turnbull |first=Clive |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37097809 |title=Eureka: the story of Peter Lalor. |date=1946 |publisher=Hawthorn Press |location=Melbourne |language=English |oclc=37097809}}{{Cite news |last=Ebsworth |first=Rev. Walter |date=23 April 1947 |title=Early History of the Church in Victoria-No. 37: The Eureka Stockade and Bishop Goold |pages=16 |work=Advocate |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172487212}}
• {{Citation | author1=Croll, Robert Henderson | author2=Jordan, Allan, 1898-1982, (artist.) | author3=Hawthorn Press | title=Umph the gargoyle | publication-date=1947 | publisher=Hawthorn Press | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17946686 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Gartner, John | author2=Jordan, Allan | author3=Hawthorn Press | title=A noose for Ned...: reprint of a very rare pamphlet; with a foreword by Frank Clune | publication-date=1948 | publisher=Hawthorn Press | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8493568}}{{Cite news |date=15 October 1949 |title="Such Is Life!" Said Edward Kelly |pages=9 |work=The Argus |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22785731}}
• {{Citation |author1=Platt, John |title=Colour woodcuts: a book of reproductions and a handbook of method |publication-date=1948 |publisher=Pitman & Sons |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22546655}}
• {{Citation | author1=Chisholm, Alec H. (Alec Hugh) | author2=Rowan, Ellis, 1848-1922 | author3=Jordan, Allan | title=News from nature: a selection of seasonal gossip | publication-date=1949 | publisher=Georgian House | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18570480}}{{Cite news |date=19 February 1949 |title=News of nature here and in Britain |pages=12 |work=The Herald |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article247715926}}
• {{Citation |author1=Henderson, Alexander |title=A century in timber |publication-date=1953 |publisher=J. Wright & Sons Pty. Ltd |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8633764}}
• {{Citation |author1=Littlewood, Robert C. (Robert Clive) |author2=Jordan, Allan, 1898-1982, (artist.) |author3=Lytlewode Press, (publisher.) |title=Ten bookplates by Allan Jordan |year=2014 |publication-date=2014 |publisher=Lytlewode Press |isbn=978-1-905611-60-7}}

• The Graham Bookplate Collection; bookplates collected by David H Graham{{Cite web |title=ATL: Unpublished Collections |url=https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.285640 |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=tiaki.natlib.govt.nz}}
• National Gallery of Australia{{Citation

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• National Gallery of Victoria{{Cite web |title=Allan Jordan works |url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/4526/ |website=National Gallery of Victoria Collections}}
• Hamilton Art Gallery{{Cite web |title=Allan Jordan |url=https://www.hamiltongallery.org/product/allan-jordan-allan-jordan/ |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=Hamilton Gallery |language=en-AU}}
• Benalla Art Gallery{{Cite web |last=www.bibliopolis.com |title=Parrots by Allan Jordan, Australian on Josef Lebovic Gallery |url=https://www.joseflebovicgallery.com/pages/books/CL183-78/allan-jordan-australian/parrots?soldItem=true |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=Josef Lebovic Gallery |language=en-US}}
• Swinburne University Art Collection{{Cite book |last1=Jervis |first1=Sara |title=The Swinburne Art Collection |last2=Buchholz (design) |first2=Peter |date=January 2013 |publisher=Swinburne University of Technology |pages=15 |language=en}}
• Rijksmuseum{{Cite web |title=Ex libris van S.V. Hagley, Allan Jordan, 1908 - 1982 |url=https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-2017-8972 |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=Rijksmuseum |language=en}}

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