Josephine Maria Logan, known as Lillie (sometimes Lily) (October 2, 1843 — 1923) was an American painter and instructor, active for many years in Richmond, Virginia. She has been described as "probably Richmond's most esteemed teacher of art" in the late nineteenth century.[1]
Logan was born at Melbrook plantation in Charleston, South Carolina.[2] One of fifteen children born to George William Logan and Anna D'Oyley Glover Logan, she was the niece of physician Thomas Muldrup Logan[3] and a sister of the Confederate General of the same name.[4] At the outbreak of the American Civil War her family moved from Charleston to Columbia in an attempt to preserve their property from destruction; however, when William Tecumseh Sherman burned the town, their house was one of those destroyed during the raid.[3] Logan went on to study art, traveling to Rome in 1882 and remaining until 1888; her instructor there was Giuseppe Ferrari. Upon moving to Richmond, Logan began teaching her classes in the Allan House, Moldavia,[1] which had been the boyhood home of Edgar Allan Poe.[5] In 1894 she opened a new studio at 410 West Franklin Street. In 1904 she went to North Carolina, where she lived for a time before returning to Richmond, where she died.[1] Logan's pupils included Edyth Carter Beveridge,[6] Adele Goodman Clark, and Nora Houston.[7] Some of her work may be found in the collection of The Valentine.[1]