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A black ink on rag paper woodcut showing a deserted farm house with dust piled against and around it. The artist described it as "a composite of several sketches of the Dust Bowl days. Victim of the Dust was drawn by Herschel C. Logan, who was born April 19, 1901 in Magnolia, Missouri, and shortly after his birth the family moved to Winfield, Kansas. He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts for one year. Logan was a commercial and advertising artist in Salina, Kansas, until his retirement in 1968. He was a member of the Prairie Print Makers. After retirement, Logan moved to Santa Ana, California.
Creator: Herschel C. Logan
Date: 1938
Item Number: 220470
Call Number: 1977.170.8
KSHS Identifier: 1977.170.8
Agriculture - Environment - Weather - Storms - Dust
Agriculture - Structures - Windmills
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Artists
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Art - Printmaking - Prairie Print Makers
Community Life - Disasters and accidents - Dust Storms
Date - 1930s - 1938
Environment - Weather - Storms - Dust
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Original Art - Picture - Landscape
People - Notable Kansans - Logan, Herschel C., 1901-1987
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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