Robert Henry Logan was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on June 24, 1874. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and studied with Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell, who introduced him to a conservative American version of French Impressionism. In 1892 he received the school's top drawing prize. In 1895 he left for France to study at the Academie Julian, where he was guided by Louis Joseph, Raphael Collin, Jean Paul Laurens, and Benjamin Constant. In Paris he also studied with Robert Henri and associated with many other American artists including William Glackens. Through Henri, Logan met the artist James Willam Morrice and during the first decade of the twentieth century the two men traveled and painted throughout Europe. L...