Logan Medal of the Arts

See also the Logan Medal of the Geological Association of Canada.

The Logan Medal of the Arts was an arts prize started in 1907. Art Institute of Chicago helped to award the prize.  From 1917 through 1940, 270 awards were given.  

The Medal was named for arts patron Frank Granger Logan. Logan founded the brokerage house of Logan & Bryan. He served over 50 years on the board of the Institute.  He and his wife, Josephine Hancock Logan, administered the award consistent with their support of the Society for Sanity in Art. They founded that Society in 1936. Josephine Logan also wrote a book in 1937 called Sanity in Art.  The Logans strongly opposed all forms of modern art, including cubism, surrealism, and abstract expressionism.

 Winners This is an incomplete list, please help us by updating it. 1907: Albin Polasek (first winner)Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, Volumes 1-12, pg. 263, available online via Google Books
 1918: Walter Ufer
 1921: Frank V. Dudley
 1921: Cecilia Beaux
 1924: Eugene F. Savage
 1925: Albin Polasek
 1925: Archibald J. Motley
 1926: Charles Hopkinson
 1926: Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
 1929: David Smith
 1930: Davenport Griffen
 1931: Morris Kantof
 1930: Theodore Roszak
 1933: Santiago Martínez Delgado
 1935: Doris Lee
 1938: Norman MacLeish 
 1939: Gladys Curtis Simpson
 1940: Lawrence Adams 
 1942: Abbott Lawrence Pattison
 1954: Naum Gabo
 1959: Richard Talaber
 1963: Isamu Noguchi
 1964: James Rosati
 1966: Al Held

George Bellows
Gutzon Borglum
James Brooks
Frank Tolles Chamberlin
Howard Norton Cook
Frederic Milton Grant
Emil Holzhauer
Edward Hopper
Rudolph Ingerle
Terrence Karpowicz
Willem de Kooning
Charles Wheeler Locke
Conrad Marca-Relli
Suzanne Martyl
Frank Moore
Louis Conrad Rosenberg
Carl E. Schwartz
Hannah Small
Heinz Warneke
Marguerite Zorach
William Zorach

References

Further reading
 Rudolph Ingerle (1879-1950): Paintings of the Ozarks, the Great Smoky Mountains and the 1933 Century of progress Exposition'' (Chicago: Aaron Galleries, 2000)

Other websites
 "Sanity & Mrs. Logan". Time Magazine (March 22, 1937).   Retrieved January 31, 2008

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