The Logan Medal of the Arts was an arts prize initiated in 1907 and associated with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Frank G Logan family and the Society for Sanity in Art. From 1917 through 1940, 270 awards were given for contributions to American art.
The Medal was named for arts patron Frank Granger Logan, founder of the brokerage house of Logan & Bryan, who served over 50 years on the board of the Chicago Art Institute. He and his wife, Josephine Hancock Logan, administered the award consistent with their patronage of the Society for Sanity in Art, which they founded in 1936, and the theme of her 1937 book Sanity in Art. The Logans strongly opposed all forms of modern art, including cubism, surrealism, and abstract expressionism. It was not unknown for the Society of Sanity in Art to award a prize (e.g. in 1938 to Rudolph Ingerle) in competition with the official award by the exhibition prize committee of a prize the Logans had already sponsored.
The Logans sponsored several prizes in their name. The Mr and Mrs Frank G Logan prize was awarded to a jury selected exhibit at the American Paintings and Sculpture Exhibitions held in Chicago and a similarly named prize was awarded to a local artist at the annual Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition for a selected exhibit. Frank G Logan prizes were also awarded at exhibitions of prints by the Chicago Society of Etchers, the annual International Watercolor Exhibition and the annual International Lithography and Wood Engraving Exhibition, all held at the Chicago Art Institute. Logan prizes were also awarded by the Society for Sanity in Art at exhibitions in California. Recipients of these prizes are listed below.
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Mr and Mrs Frank G. Logan prize ($1000-$1500)
Formerly awarded at the annual American Paintings and Sculpture Exhibition, Chicago
Source:Art Institute of Chicago
1917: Albin Polasek for Bust of Charles W. Hawthorne (bronze) (first award)
1918: Wayman Adams for Joseph Pennell
1919: Leon Kroll for Leo Ornstein at the Piano
1920: George B. Luks for Otis Skinner
1921: Cecilia Beaux for The Dancing Lesson
1922: Frank Weston Benson for Still Life Decoration ($1500)
1923: George Bellows for Portrait of my Mother
1924: Eugene F. Savage for Recessional ($1500)
1925: Albin Polasek for Unfettered (sculpture) ($1500)
1926: George Luks for The Player
1927: John E. Costigan for A Summer Day
1928: Arthur B. Carles for Arrangement
1929: John Storrs for Two Figures (sculpture)
1930: Louis Ritman for Jullien
1931: William Zorach for Mother and Child (sculpture) ($1500)
1932: Sidney Laufman for Landscape (last award)
Mr and Mrs Frank G. Logan Medal ($2500)
Formerly awarded at the annual American Paintings and Sculpture Exhibition, Chicago
Source:Art Institute of Chicago
1928: J. Theodore Johnson for The Black Mantilla ($2500) (first award)
1929: Alexander Brook for Children's Lunch ($2500)
1930: Heinz Warneke for The Water Carrier
1931: Morris Kantor for Haunted House ($2500)
1932: Nikolay Cikovsky for Pigeons (last award)
Mr and Mrs Frank G. Logan Art Institute Medal ($500-$2000)
Awarded at the annual American Paintings and Sculpture Exhibition, Chicago
Source:Art Institute of Chicago
1935: Doris Lee for Thanksgiving (first award)
1936: Robert Philipp for Olympia
1937: Aaron Bohrod for Wyoming Landscape
1941: Hannah Small for Curled Figure ($500) (sculpture)
1943: George Constant for First Gift ($500)
1948: Theodore Roszak for Spectre of Kitty Hawk ($500)
1951: Willem de Kooning for Excavation; Theodore Roszak for Sea Quarry ($1000)
1954: Conrad Marca-Relli for his Seated Figure ($2000); Naum Gabo for Construction in Space ($1000)
1960: Isamu Noguchi for The Self ($2000); Louise Nevelson for Construction in 3 sections ($1000)
1962: Loren Maciver
1963: Hans Hofmann for The Golden Wall; Mark di Suvero (sculpture)
1964: Stuart Davis for Standard Brand;Al Held
1966: George Segal for The Truck
1969: Karl Wirsum for Screaming Jay Hawks ($1500)
1974: Andy Warhol for Mao
1976: Robert Rauschenberg for Flood (Hoarfrost)
Mr and Mrs Frank G. Logan Art Institute Prize ($500-$2000)
Awarded at the Chicago and Vicinity annual exhibition
Source:Art Institute of Chicago
1917: Walter Ufer for In the land of mañana ($500); Victor Higgins for Juanita and the suspicious cat ($200) (first award)
1918: Victor Higgins for Fiesta day ($500); Emil Zettler for Woman and child (sculpture) ($200)
1919: Frank A. Werner for Louis H. Sullivan ($500) ; Karl A. Buehr for Farson's Creek($200)
1920: Paul Bartlett for Drizzly day ($500); Carl R. Krafft for Banks of the Gasconade($200)
1921: Frank V. Dudley for Duneland ($500); Anna Lee Stacey for Thé dansant {$200)
1922: Albin Polasek for Man chiseling his own destiny ($500); Samuel Glasstorner for Repentance (sculpture) ($200)
1923: Frederick V. Poole for Flora ($500); William P. Henderson for Querena ($200)
1924: Leopold Seyffert for A portrait ($500); John F. Stacey for From an Essex Hillside, Conn ($200)
1925: Carl R. Krafft for Nocturne ($500);Archibald John Motley, Jnr for A Mulatress ($200)
1926: George Oberteuffer for Portrait of my wife ($500); Frederic M. Grant for Departure of Marco Polo ($200)
1927: H. Amiard Oberteuffer for The yellow dress ($750); Marques E. Reitzel for The morning route ($500)
1928: Paul Trebilcock for Portrait of a painter ($750); J. Theodore Johnson for Mary ($500)
1929: W. Vladimir Rouseff for In the open ($750);Edmund Giesbert for Uphill ($500)
1930: Davenport Griffen for Sleep ($750);Marshall D. Smith for West Van Buren Street ($500)
1931: J. Theodore Johnson for Bistro Bruel ($750); Edouard Chassaing for Black Panther (sculpture) ($500)
1932: Claude Buck for Girl reading ($750);Frances Foy for Betty ($500)
1933: Francis Chapin for Pink House; Laura van Pappelendam for Long Haired Cactus
1934: Peterpaul Ott for The Dancer, Harald Kreutzberg (sculpture) ($750)
1935: Edouard Chassaing for Head of E.L. Heitkamp (sculpture)
1936: Constantine Pougialis for Russian dancer
1937: Carl Hallsthammar for Venus in Red Cherry ($500)
1938: Norman MacLeish for Watertown
1939: Maeble Perry Edwards for Portrait of L.L. Valentine (sculpture)
1940: Lawrence Adams for West Side in Winter
1941: Joseph P. Gualtieri for Mario ($500)
1942: Abbott Lawrence Pattison for Kneeling Women ($500)
1943: Sidney Loeb for Abraham Lincoln (sculpture} ($500)
1944: Edgar Miller for City Detail ($500); Margo Hoff for In the Cathedral ($300)
1945: Aaron Bohrod for Joan of Arc in Montebourg
1946: John Wallace Purcell for Michele Verbrugghen (sculpture) ($500)
1947: Mitchell Siporin for End of an Era ($500)
1948: Gustav Dalstrom for Portrait ($500)
1949: Egon Wiener for Torso in wood (sculpture) ($500)
1950: Suzanne Martyl for View of Galena ($500)
1951: Joyce Treiman for Escape ($500)
1952: Don Yacoe for Nationalism ($500)
1953: Margo Hoff for Stage Fright ($1000)
1954: No exhibition
1955: Joseph Goto for Struggle ($1500) (sculpture); Gerald W McLaughlin for The Orator and the Ladies ($1000)
1956: Anna P Baker for High Frequency ping ($1500); Richard Hunt for Construction D (£1000) (sculpture)
1957: Eleanor Coen for Growing City ($1500);Robert James Anderson for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ($1000)
1958: Keith Boyle for White Frozen Forms ($1500); Carl E. Schwartz for The Card Players
1959: Richard Talaber for Ferous Confine ($1500); Harry Brorby ($1000)
1960: Eleanor Coen for Visitation ($2000); Constance Cohen for Procession ($1500)
1961: William Baziotes for The Sea (£2000); Edouardo Paolozzi for Large Frog (sculpture) ($1000)
1962: George Kokines for Embracement #1 ($2000);James Rosati for sculpture
1963:
1964: Michael Hurson for an untitled painting ($2000); Belle Sanford for The Apprentice (bronze)($1000)
1965: Tom Parish
1966: Irene Siegel for The Family ($1000);Douglas D. Craft for Alone of a Love not Wanting ($500); Joseph J. Rozman for Caudro Tablero ($250)
1967: Gladys Nilsson for Very Worldly ($2000); Leanne Shreves Stevenson for Events ($1500) (not exhibited due to controversy)
1968: Mel Theobald; Lynne Cohen for Reconstruction 1 ($500)
1969: Thomas Shannon for Mexo-O (sculpture)
1970: No exhibition
1971: Robert Lostutter for his watercolour ($500)
1972: No exhibition
1973: Stephen Carlson for Untitled ($1000); Bill Moll for Zoo Scene ($1000) ; Roy Schnackenberg for The Twelve Złoty Balthus ($1000); Jayme Curley for Potato Fields ($500)
1974: No exhibition
1975: Alice Shaddle for Gardener ($1000); Mary Stoppert for Solo ($1000) ;Terrence Karpowicz for Suspended Glass from Black Box over White Sand ($1000)
1976: No exhibition
1977: Roger Brown for The Entry of Christ into Chicago, 1976 ($1000) ; Vera Berdich for Recurring Themes ($1000); Robert M. Donley for Helen and her Suitors ($1000)
1978: No prize awarded
1979: No exhibition
1980: Michael J. Buglewicz for Myth ($1000) ; Steve Mose for Untitled; Filemon Santiago for La Casa de los Espantos ($1000)
1981: No exhibition
1982:
1983: No exhibition
1984: Paul LaMantia for Day thru Evening dream ($1000); Mark Jackson for Out of the Darkness ($1000) ; Hollis Sigler for The World is Endlesss Desire ($1000)
Awarded at the Chicago Society of Etchers exhibition
1923 Edward Hopper for East Side Interior
1925 Louis Conrad Rosenberg
1927 Louis Conrad Rosenberg
Awarded by the Society for Sanity in Art, California.
1940 Anna Wilson
1940 Frank Tolles Chamberlin
1942 Edward Bruce Douglas
1944 Frank Montague Moore
