| Title: |
Notre Dame, Dijon |
| Artist: |
Logan, Robert Fulton (Lauder, Manitoba, 1889 - Boston, 1959) |
| Date: |
1926 |
| Medium: |
Original Etching and Drypoint |
| Publisher: |
Alexis Gallery, Paris |
| Note: |
Robert Fulton Logan 'Robert Logan': Widely acknowledged
as one of America's greatest architectural etchers of the early twentieth
century, Robert Fulton Logan was in fact a Canadian. This misconception
is mainly the fault of our Canadian art scholars. In their defense one
may argue that for most of his career Robert Logan was an expatriate, living
first in France and later in the United States. Canadian scholars, however,
have readily embraced both Frank and Caroline Armington as their own,
considering both these artists also lived and worked in Paris. |
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Born in Manitoba, Robert Fulton Logan received his first
art lessons in Winnipeg under Frank Armington. At the age of sixteen he
enrolled at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, studying painting under Edmund
Tarbell and etching under Frank Benson. He then completed his artistic
education at the Chicago Art Institute. Logan first journeyed to France
during the First World War as an officer in the American navy. After the
war, Robert Logan accepted the position of director at the Bellevue Art Training
Center, in Paris, and also taught classes at the Louvre. He remained in
Paris for almost twenty years. |
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During his career, Robert Fulton Logan created over one hundred architectural
etchings of scenes in France, Germany and Holland. The first important
one-man showing of his etched art was held at the American Chamber of
Commerce, Paris, (1922) and then at annual exhibitions at the Galerie
Marcel Guiot. On his return to the United States in 1934, Logan accepted
the position of Chairman of the Department of Art at Connecticut College,
remaining there until his retirement in 1954. |
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Robert Logan was a full member of the Chicago Society of
Etchers, the National Arts Club (1922) and the Societe Internationale
De La Gravure Originale en Noir (1921). Today, examples of his original
etchings are housed in the collections of the British Museum, London,
the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Cambridge University, the Bibliotheque Nationale,
Paris, the Museum of Luxembourg, the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the
Library of Congress, Washington, and the Smithsonian Museum. Quite an
accomplishment for a Canadian from Lauder, Manitoba! |
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Notre Dame, Dijon is one of Robert Fulton Logan's greatest and
largest original etchings. It was printed and published in Paris in a
sole, signed limited edition of one hundred impressions in 1926. In Notre
Dame, Dijon, Robert Logan extensively employed drypointing in the foreground
to create deep shadows and depths. As well, his delicate architectural
etching and his masterful play of sunlight makes this original work of
art a masterpiece within Logan's oeuvre. |
| Reference: |
C. L. Morgen, The Etchings and Drypoints of Robert Fulton
Logan, The Print Connoisseur, New York, January 1929, pp. 11 - 27.
(Note: This famous etching is reproduced opposite p. 12.) |
| Edition: |
Limited edition of one hundred impressions, numbered 31/100. |
| Size: |
19 1/2 X 10 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate,
height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
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View larger Framed Image |
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| Condition: |
Printed upon fine, hand-made, laid paper bearing the 'Arches'
watermark and with full margins as published in the signed limited edition
of one hundred in Paris in 1926. Signed with Logan's monogramme in the
plate and signed and numbered, '31/100' in pencil by the artist along
the lower margin. Containing slight matte burning in the outer margins
from a previous framing effort, else a superbly printed impression and
in excellent condition throughout. Notre Dame, Dijon represents
a superb, original example of the famous architectural art of Robert Fulton
Logan. |
| Price: |
Sold - The price is no longer available. |
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