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The scattered papers documenting the activities of pre-World War II Chicago art patron Josephine Hancock Logan measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1939 to 1974. The papers also relate to her husband, Frank G. Logan, and the Society for Sanity in Art and were compiled by Gloria Kolodny Chanenson. Found are printed materials, a mailing list, photographs, and printed poetry by Logan.
The collection is available on 35mm microfilm reel 4183 at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of the material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
Arts administrator Gloria Kolodny Chanenson (1920-2010) was a scholarship student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1938-1943, she was the secretary of Josephine Hancock Logan.
Josephine Hancock Logan (1862-1943) was prominent art patron from Chicago, Illinois. She was an opponent of modernism who founded the Society for Sanity in Art in 1936.
Donated 1988 by Gloria K. Chanenson.
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Gloria Kolodny Chanenson papers on Josephine Hancock Logan, 1939-1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The papers were microfilme upon receipt on reel 4183. The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Jayna Josefson in 2022 with support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
Found are scattered material relating to Josephine Logan and Frank Logan, and the art scene of Chicago, Illinois. Included are auction and exhibition catalogs from the Logan collection and clippings; Logan's mailing list of contacts of artists, collectors, and arts administrators; two portraits of Josephine Logan, one of which is signed; and published poems by Logan. One poem,"Syuncrasy," includes an original etching by James Swann.
Also in the collection is a catalog for the First National Exhibition of the Society for Sanity in Art (1939) and two auction catalogs for the Josephine Hancock Logan Collection and the Frank G. Logan Collection of Famous Paintings (1945).