Art Student in Washington, D.C.
He attended art school in Washington, D.C., staying until 1917. While he was a student he rented a studio at 1421 F street where, in 1916, he exhibited a selection of works from the Armory Show (1913) that introduced Americans to the new abstraction being made in Europe. The show contained 34 or 35 pictures on loan from Alfred Stieglitz in New York. It had an immediate impact in Washington: it was very controversial, and Logasa was called a "hopeless degenerate" and expelled from art school. The show featured 34 or 35 works from New York, among them two watercolors by Paul Cézanne, two drawings and two oils by Pablo Picasso, a drawing and a watercolor by Henri Matisse and two Georges Braque. Corcoran College of Art and Design, as with most other American art schools before the 1930s, was controlled by academics hostile to the new European Modernism.
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