Maurice George Logan ART FOR SALE

1886 Temescal Lake, California - 1977 Orinda, California. Known for: Landscape, harbors and townscape painting, illustration.

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Born north of San Francisco near Calistoga on Temescal Dam Lake, Maurice Logan was an adept watercolor and oil painter of ghost towns, desert landscapes, and marine scenes. The artists he most admired were John Singer Sargent and Joaquin Sorolla. He was part of the Society of Six*, a group in the 1920s led by Selden Gile that espoused bright color (Fauvism*), a sense of region, Impressionist style, and rebellion against the prevalent Tonalism* and classical strictures of William Keith and Arthur Mathews. The Six exhibited together at the Oakland Art Gallery. Later in his career, he reverted to a Tonalist style. From childhood, Logan wanted to be an artist, and he took his first lessons from a Miss Clara Cuff. A family friend paid for the... Read full biography

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"Early Morning - Point Lobos" , Carmel - Image 1 of 4

"Early Morning - Point Lobos" , Carmel - Image 2 of 4

"Early Morning - Point Lobos" , Carmel

Type:Painting

Year:c. 1939

Size:36.00" x 40.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Left

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Exhibited: M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco/1962: 22nd Annual Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists. Hearst Art Gallery-Saint Mary's College of California/1991: A Retrospective of Paintings from the "Society of Six" years to the 1960s.