Logan’s works grew more subdued as he aged, and by the end of the 1930’s he had abandoned his colorful palette entirely. A native of California, Maurice Logan studied with a number of San Francisco’s finest instructors, starting with Richard Partington. He further studied with Theodore Wores, and Frank Van Sloun at the San Francisco Institute of Art, and at the Art Institute of Chicago and the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he ultimately taught between 1935-1943.
Logan was a close friend and frequent painting partner, Harold Gretzner. Logan was 16 years older but they shared a shared a similar approach to painting watercolors, with a spontaneous, wet-into-wet approach that became characteristic of Northern California watercolor.
Logan was one of the initail members of The Thirteen Watercolorists, a group who staged annual exhibitions in the 1930's and '40's. Gretzner joined the group later. The Thirteen Watercolorists were strictly a northern California group, but stylistically, were quite similar with the California Style Watercolor Movement.
There is a reference stating Logan and Gretzner painting together at the same location as late as the early 1960's.
