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MAURICE GEORGE LOGAN

American / California (1886-1977)

 

 

"Double Enders, Docked"
Oil on Canvas

Signed ‘Maurice Logan' l.l.
 

 Provenance: Property from the Family of Maurice Logan, Northern California
Exhibited: Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, California, October 5 - November 11, 1989

Museums (11): including Metropolitan Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Academy of

Design, San Francisco Museum of Art, de Young Museum

 

Books (30): , including Society of Six California Colorists, Nancy Boas; Twilight and Reverie:

California Tonalist Painting 1890-1930, Harvey L. Jones

 

Periodicals: American Art Review, 2002 June, The Society of Six

 

 Image size: 20” x 24”

Price: Please Inquire

 

#5773

 

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Maurice George LOGAN (1886-1977)

 

Birth place: San Francisco, CA

 

Death place: Orinda, CA

 

Addresses: Oakland, CA

 

Profession: Painter, illustrator

 

Studied: Art Center, San Francisco, 1935; Partington Art School, San Francisco; Mark Hopkins Art Institute with

Theodore Wores & Frank Van Sloan; Art Institute of Chicago with Reynolds, 1936; California College Arts &

Crafts (Director of Fine Arts, 1956).

 

Exhibited: Oakland Art Gallery, 1933 (solo), 1938 (solo), 1941 (solo); Courvoisier Gallery, San Francisco,

1933 (solo); Art Institute of Chicago; , 1939;, 1939; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1940 (solo), 1976;

Society of Western Artists, 1949-61; National Academy of Design, 1954-58 (certificate of merit), 1959-68;

American Watercolor Society, 1954-1958 (grand prize & gold medal), 1959-62 (prize), 1963 (prize), 1964-68;

De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1957 (solo); Maxwell Galleries., San Francisco, 1961 (solo);

California State Fair, Sacramento, 1962 (first place purchase award); "Two Hundred Years of American Watercolor,"

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966; Society of Six, Oakland Museum, 1972, 1981; Bohemian Club, 1975 (solo).

 

Member: National Academy of Design; American Watercolor Society; Society of Illustrators California; Oakland Art

Association; Society Western Artists.

 

Work: National Academy of Design; California State Fair Permanent Collection, Sacramento; Haggin Gallery, Stockton,

 CA; Oakland (CA) Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; San Diego Fine Art Gallery; Los Angeles County Museum

 of Art; Bohemian Club; de Young Museum; Metropolitan Museum; California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park;

Reading (PA) Public Museum & Art Gallery; Frye Public Art Museum, Seattle, WA

 

Comments: Preferred media: watercolors, oils. Position: trustee, Calif. College Arts & Crafts, 1935-72. Teaching:

California College Arts & Crafts, 1935-44.

 

Sources: Who's Who 1973; Who's Who 1940; articles, American Artist magazine (June, 1962 & May, 1968); Society of Six,

catalogue (Oakland Mus. Art Dept, 1972); Hughes, Artists of California, 341-42.

 

Museums:

de Young Museum

Frye Public Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary's College 

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum

National Academy of Design

Oakland Museum of California 

Reading (PA) Public Museum & Art Gallery

San Diego Museum of Art 

San Francisco Museum of Art

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

 

 

 

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