Born near Lauder, Manitoba, portrait painter and etcher Robert Fulton Logan studied art in Paris at age 16, followed by studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Art Institute of Chicago. For twenty years, he was a faculty member at Connecticut College, retiring in 1954. In his later years, Logan headed the Art Department at Newton College of the Sacred Heart. His work was widely exhibited in major galleries and museums in both Europe and the United States, including the Corcoran Gallery, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Paris Salon (1921 – 1930). He died at Boston, Massachusetts.