Castle Scene

Frances M. Logan (1855–1946), Kansas City, MO, by 1946 [1];

Logan’s estate, 1946–June 15, 1953;

Bequeathed by Frances M. Logan to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.

NOTES:

[1] Frances Logan was a friend and student of Effie Seachrest (1869–1952), a small-scale Kansas City-based dealer who bought art on consignment and taught art connoisseurship classes. Logan may have acquired the print from Seachrest. For more on Seachrest and Logan, see MacKenzie Mallon, “A Seed of Desire: Effie Seachrest and Women Collectors in Kansas City,” The Art Market and the Museum:  Institutional Collecting, Display, and Patronage since the Mid-Nineteenth Century, ed. Frances Fowle and MaryKate Cleary (London: Bloomsbury, 2025), 184–98.

Alternatively, Logan may have met Venanzi in person. Although he lived in Italy for most of his life, he married a Kansas City artist named Bertha Rockwell (1874–1970). In 1922, he painted images and decorations on the High Altar in the Apse of Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kansas City and was back in the city again to repair the paintings following a disastrous fire in 1929. For Venanzi’s biography, see Randal J. Loy, Historian to the Dean of Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, on “Artist Biography and Facts: Carlo Gino Venanzi,” AskART, accessed December 10, 2025, https://www.askart.com/artist/Carlo_Gino_Venanzi/10055673/Carlo_Gino_Venanzi.aspx.