The society was founded in
Chicago in 1936 by
Josephine Hancock Logan (May 1, 1862November 1, 1943),
Haig Patigian was the group's president in the 1940s. A western branch of the Society changed its name to the
Society of Western Artists in 1939; it is currently the largest society of representational artists in the western US. The society's San Francisco branch sponsored an annual art exhibit-for-sale by its members at the
California Palace of the Legion of Honor at least as late as 1945. Artists that supported the group's cause included William Winthrop Ward, Florence Louise Bryant,
Percy Gray, Rudolph F. Ingerle,
Frank Montague Moore, Thomas Hill,
Claude Buck,
Frank Charles Peyraud,
Theodore Wores and
Chauncey Foster Ryder. The Society gave awards to artists who met its standards of "sanity", including the
Logan Medal of the Arts. ==References==