Kickapoo Logan Photo by Rick Pendergrass
Photo by Rick Pendergrass
Ex-frosh football coach now works as oil painter
Athletics and art appear to be one in the same to Kickapoo Logan, former freshman football coach and now a Palm Springs, Calif., oil painter.
Logan is a 1930 KU graduate with a major in physical education and education. For three of his undergraduate years he was a 169-pound guard under Coach Bill Hargiss. For three years after graduation he was the freshman football coach and trainer.
"Hargiss taught me football and for the last nine years I've been teaching him art." he said.
Logan's art works are presently on display at the Lost Gallery and Herb's photography studio at the Mall shopping center. His work will be on display May 17 and 18 when there will be an art show featuring the works of 100 to 120 artists, said Herb Williams, owner of Herb's Studio.
Landscapes, seascapes, flowers and Midwestern farm scenes characterize Logan's oil paintings.
Colorful scenes
"I paint colorful scenes as I have an affinity for color," Logan explained. "I don't think or paint in the modern abstract way. I feature abstract art as a pictorial picture of human frustrations."
"I walked through the KU art
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department and walked right out. I've taught at five universities and you can't teach abstract art, you can't teach someone to put their mental frustrations on canvas."
The American Institute of Fine Arts recently awarded him a medal not only as an artist but as a singer as well.
"Hargiss' wife was my voice instructor while I was in school, I still do a lot of singing," Logan said.
After a lifetime as an athletic trainer and manufacturer of training equipment, Logan sold his training equipment last year to his son and son-in-law and now devotes six to eight hours a day to his paintings. He has both an indoor and outdoor studio in Palm Springs, and his other paintings are on display in galleries in Los Angeles, Hawaii, New Mexico, Pasadena, Calif., and Arizona.
Interest began 50 years ago
"I became interested in art 50 years ago when I found a painting in a deserted home near Hiawatha," he said. "I appreciated its values, composition and color and the painting meant something."
"Athletics is an art," Logan continued. "There is nothing more beautiful than the human form in action."
In much of his work he said he tries to capture color, mostly paintings of Indians as he believes they are more colorful.
Darkness falls on play
The adage of "the show must go on" did not hold true in Saturday's performance of the University Theatre's opera, Midsummer Night's Dream. At 10:30 p.m. Murphy Hall was engulfed in darkness due to a power failure which could not be repaired until 1 p.m. Sunday.
Because power cables under the new Haworth Hall had been removed by contractors, a splice in a power cable broke causing the black-out, said Harry M. Buchholz, superintendent of buildings and grounds.
"The Kansas Union, Memorial Stadium, Allen Field House, and part of the power but not the lights in Malott Hall were temporarily affected by the power failure," Buchholz explained.
The new cable was installed Friday night and early Saturday morning.
"In the six years I've been in the drama department this has
never happened before," said Charles Lown, professor of speech and drama and University Theatre's technical director.
After it was apparent the lights would not come back on, Tom Rea, director of Midsummer Night's Dream.
announced to the audience the show couldn't go on.
"A man in the audience brought a camper flashlight from his car," Lown said, "and by shining it on the ceiling, it provided enough light for the audience to leave."
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