Maurice Logan (1886 —1977) was an American watercolorist, commercial artist and arts educator. He was a member of the Society of Six, and a professor at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California.
Born in San Francisco, California, Maurice Logan was an expert watercolor and oil painter of California scenes which included the downtown and waterfront areas of San Francisco and other small California towns, California and Arizona deserts and countless marine related scenes.
Logan was part of the Society of Six, a highly influential group in the 1920s led by Selden Gile that combined the bright colors of Fauvism with a sense of region in a loose Impressionist style. The Society of Six exhibited together at the Oakland Art Gallery.
From a young age, Maurice Logan aspired to have a career as an artist. Logan took his first lessons (at the age of ten) from a local California artist Miss Clara Cuff. It is rumored that a family friend paid for the lessons because Logan's father disapproved of his son's art interests. Despite this disapproval, young Logan was encouraged in artistic expression by the many artists who came to paint in the Temescal Lake area and also by the Bohemian atmosphere of writers he met there including Jack London and Ambrose Bierce.
Maurice Logan enrolled in the Partington Art School in San Francisco, and after the school was destroyed by the earthquake, Maurice worked with Richard Partington at the Piedmont Art Gallery. Logan later became the first student to enroll in the post-earthquake San Francisco Institute of Art. From 1907 to 1913, Logan studied with the likes of Theodore Wores, John Stanton, Christian Nahl, and Frank Van Sloun. Maurice Logan's first exhibited painting was in the San Francisco Art Association's 1914 Annual Spring Exhibition.
Maurice Logan continued his studies at the Chicago Art Institute and then returned to California where he studied and then taught for eight years at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA.
By the mid 1930s, Logan had become active in the California School of watercolor painting, which took a bold and direct approach to the regional subject matter that he was already accustomed to painting. Maurice Logan began exhibiting his transparent watercolor paintings and helped form another influential group called the Thirteen Watercolorists. This group which included fellow bay area watercolorists Nat Levy, Rene Weaver, and Harold Gretzner.
For many years, Maurice was an influential art instructor at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. Logan was also on the board of directors of the Society of Western Artists, the West Coast Watercolor Society, and other local art clubs. Maurice Logan also juried art exhibitions at the Oakland Art Museum and was a member of the Bohemian Club, where he showed his paintings on a regular basis.
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| California Beaches - Southern Pacific, 1920 |
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| San Remo 1920 |
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| Visit India 1920 |
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Workers at the Dock illustration, 1920
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| Lake Tahoe - Southern Pacific 1923 |
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| Yosemite - Soutnern Pacific 1923-24 |
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| Lake Garda 1924 |
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| Shasta Route - Southern Pacific 1927 |
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| By Rail Across Great Salt Lake - Southern Pacific 1928 |
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| Del Monte - Southern Pacific 1928 |
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| New Orleans - Southern Pacific 1928 |
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| Redwood Empire Tour - Southern Pacific 1928 |
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| Tahoe Lake Region - Southern Pacific 1928 |
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| Thailand 1928 |
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| 4 Great Routes East - Southern Pacific 1929 |
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| Carriso Gorge - Southern Pacific 1929 |
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| Dock Walking 1929 |
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Mexico Route - Southern Pacific 1929
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| Yosemite - Southern Pacific Lines 1929 |
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| Daylight Limited- Southern Pacific 1930 |
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| Old Missions - Southern Pacific 1930 |
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| Sunset Route, 1930 |
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| The Alamo- Southern Pacific 1930 |
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| Crater Lake - Southern Pacific 1933 |
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Portrait of a Japanese Woman in an Iris Garden
for The Household Magazine, April, 1933 |
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| The White Empresses Of The Pacific- Canadian Pacific 1934 |
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| See Mexico - Southern Pacific 1936 |
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| To The Far East - Canadian Pacific- White Empress Route 1936 |
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| Printing Ship Poster, 1950 |
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| Le Lac Majeur |
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| Paris |
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| Saint-Malo |
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