Logan, Frank Granger, 1851-1937
type Collector
dates 1851-1937
city Chicago
stateIL
sex M
history Capitalist, art collector, honorary president of the Art Institute of Art and financed various archaeological expeditions.

He established F. G. Logan & Company (a businesses in securities and grain) and was a founder of the Logan Museum. After Logan retired in 1901, he and his wife Josephine Hancock became full-time philanthropists, supporting the Chicago Art Institute, Chicago Civic Opera, and Beloit College.

Logan lent work to the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909, a Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of Himself, now in unknown location. Chicago Art Institute exhibition catalog "Paintings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan": [August, 1910]
decades1880-1890
1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Gloria Kolodny Chanenson papers on Josephine Hancock Logan, 1939-1974. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
August Jaccaci papers, 1889-1935 (bulk 1904-1914). see details...

see alsoLogan, Josephine Hancock