SIGNED ROBERT LOGAN { 1889-1959} PENCIL DRAWING OF A 1600'S ENGLISH WARSHIP

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Please see all of the photographs and read the complete description. Both the images and text are considered a full disclosure of condition. A LITTLE HISTORY: Robert Fulton Logan is widely acknowledged as one of America's greatest architectural etchers of the early twentieth century, but he was in fact, a Canadian. For most of his career however he could be considered an expatriate, having lived first in France and later in the United States. Born in Manitoba, Robert Logan received his first art lessons in Winnipeg under Frank Armington. At the age of sixteen Robert enrolled at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School where he studied painting under Edmund Tarbell and etching under Frank Benson. He then completed his artistic education at the Chicago Art Institute. Logan first journeyed to France during the first World War as an officer in the American Navy. After the war he accepted the position of director at the Bellevue Art Training Center, in Paris, and also taught classes at the Louvre. He remained in Paris for almost twenty years. During his career, Robert Logan created over one hundred architectural etchings of scenes in France, Germany, and Holland. On his return to the United States in 1934, Logan accepted the position of Chairman of the Department of Art at Connecticut College, remaining there until his retirement in 1 read more