Logan Medal of the Arts facts for kids

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

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• 1907: Albin Polasek (first winner)
• 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

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