signed first edition Hinge mounted to slip of cardboard behind and above a thin white board with a window that shows the image below
[1930] · No Place
by Herschel Cary Logan (1901-1987)
N.P.: Herschel C. Logan, 1930.
Woodcut Print, Broadside. Sheet: 10 x 12 inches. Image: 6 x 8 7/8 inches. Signed in the block. Titled "Old Homestead" in pencil below the image and SIGNED by Herschel C. Logan in pencil below the image. Tissue guard INSCRIBED by Herschel Logan: "To Mel, with appreciation, Herschel." Hinge mounted to slip of cardboard behind and above a thin white board with a window that shows the image below.
WITH: POWELL, Minna K., "Charm of Kansas Landscape in Logan's Woodcuts, The Kansas City Star, no date [circa 1935?]. OFFPRINT: bifold, 8 1/2 x 11 inches. 4 pp. 4 examples of Logan's woodcuts, portrait of Logan. KJH1123-253. Very Good.
Original Herschel Logan woodcut, 1930. No limitation. SIGNED and INSCRIBED. From 1921 to 1938 Logan produced some 140 woodcuts in editions up to 50. In 1938 he gave up printmaking as a profession. December 28, 1930 organizational meeting of The Prairie Printmakers, which was a cooperative of print makers with a national following. They banned together to promote one another's work and general sales for the individual members. The Colonel was born in 1935, created for daily newspaper advertisements run by Consolidated Printing Company in Kansas. Stereotypical Southern Colonel who sported a plantation style suit. Copyrighted character noted for homespun wisdom delivered in epigrams reminiscent of Mark Twain or Will Rogers.
Herchel Logan retired from the newspaper business and moved to Southern California in 1967. 1973 Logan purchased a Baby Reliance Washington Hand Press which began the production of miniature books. The Logans had a studio in the back yard of their Santa Ana home. Log-Anne Press produced 50 miniature books, although Bradbury records 43 miniature book issued under the Log-Anne imprint. The volumes were printed, illustrated, bound, and often written by either Herschel or Anne.
PROVENANCE: INSCRIBED by Hershel Logan to Mel Kavin of Kater-Crafts Bookbinders, Inc.
REFERENCE: Lehman, Herschel Logan, p. [28]. (Inventory #: KJH1123-253)
Woodcut Print, Broadside. Sheet: 10 x 12 inches. Image: 6 x 8 7/8 inches. Signed in the block. Titled "Old Homestead" in pencil below the image and SIGNED by Herschel C. Logan in pencil below the image. Tissue guard INSCRIBED by Herschel Logan: "To Mel, with appreciation, Herschel." Hinge mounted to slip of cardboard behind and above a thin white board with a window that shows the image below.
WITH: POWELL, Minna K., "Charm of Kansas Landscape in Logan's Woodcuts, The Kansas City Star, no date [circa 1935?]. OFFPRINT: bifold, 8 1/2 x 11 inches. 4 pp. 4 examples of Logan's woodcuts, portrait of Logan. KJH1123-253. Very Good.
Original Herschel Logan woodcut, 1930. No limitation. SIGNED and INSCRIBED. From 1921 to 1938 Logan produced some 140 woodcuts in editions up to 50. In 1938 he gave up printmaking as a profession. December 28, 1930 organizational meeting of The Prairie Printmakers, which was a cooperative of print makers with a national following. They banned together to promote one another's work and general sales for the individual members. The Colonel was born in 1935, created for daily newspaper advertisements run by Consolidated Printing Company in Kansas. Stereotypical Southern Colonel who sported a plantation style suit. Copyrighted character noted for homespun wisdom delivered in epigrams reminiscent of Mark Twain or Will Rogers.
Herchel Logan retired from the newspaper business and moved to Southern California in 1967. 1973 Logan purchased a Baby Reliance Washington Hand Press which began the production of miniature books. The Logans had a studio in the back yard of their Santa Ana home. Log-Anne Press produced 50 miniature books, although Bradbury records 43 miniature book issued under the Log-Anne imprint. The volumes were printed, illustrated, bound, and often written by either Herschel or Anne.
PROVENANCE: INSCRIBED by Hershel Logan to Mel Kavin of Kater-Crafts Bookbinders, Inc.
REFERENCE: Lehman, Herschel Logan, p. [28]. (Inventory #: KJH1123-253)
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