Helen Loggie

Who was Helen Loggie?

Helen Amanda Loggie was a U.S. artist, primarily known for her etchings of trees and coastlines.

She attended Smith College in Massachusetts. Between 1916 and 1924, she studied at the Art Students League of New York. Here she began to develop a style which rejected such modernist themes as those trumpeted by the Ashcan School. She toured Europe in 1926-27 where she made an extensive body of sketches and paintings. Soon before returning home to Washington, she met etcher and printer John Taylor Arms, beginning a twenty-five year collaboration. In 1957 she was elected an Academician of the National Academy of Design.

In 1930-31 Loggie built a house on the shores of Eastsound, Orcas Island, where she spent most summers creating her small pencil drawings and etchings. Her archives, consisting of numerous prints and drawings, reside in the collection at the Western Gallery of Art at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. The largest collection of her work and papers is in The Lambiel Museum on Orcas Island.