It’s been over a year since my last post, one that was way more affected by Covid’s stubbornness than we had hoped or expected.  I finally turned back to one of my planned retirement activities, to add articles to Wikipedia about some of my favorite, but underrepresented online, print artists whose work I collect. There are three new pages. My target this time was Kansas printmaker and illustrator Herschel C. Logan, one of a group of Prairie Print Makers. There is a companion List of Works page as well.

Last year I acquired two of Logan’s woodcuts that were on my “most wanted” list, Dust Storm and Tornado, both from 1938.

Like his other woodcuts, these are rendered in precise and detailed lines, with a wonderful use of massed black and shading. Most of his other works are serene, nostalgic scenes — farms and fields and trees, small town buildings with names like “Church in the Valley”, “The Old Blacksmith Shop”, “Country Store”, etc., reminiscent of “the good old days”. These two late works exhibit a remarkable and true sense of menace familiar to citizens of the mid-west.