Robert was born in Lauder Manitoba, Canada. Receiving his first art education in Winnipeg, Canada. He enrolled at the age of sixteen at The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Studying painting under Philip Leslie Hale and Edmund Tarbell and etching under Frank Benson. He went on to complete his education at the Chicago Art Institute. Logan was an officer in the American navy and journeyed to France during the First World War. During the war he was a student and instructor at the Art Training Center at the Pavillon de Bellevue, Bellevue, France. After the war he accepted the position of director of the Bellevue Art Training Center. He also taught art classes at the Louvre. Logan lived in France for almost 20 years returning stateside with his wife and daughter in 1934. He was hired by Connecticut College as the Chairman of their Art Department and also as an instructor. He also worked as curator at the Lyman Allyn Museum in New London, Connecticut. Retiring from Connecticut College in 1954. Moving with his family to Boston, Mass where he headed the Art Department at Newton College of the Sacred Heart.

During his life in France he created over one hundred architectural etchings. His first solo show was at the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris in 1922. There after having annual exhibitions at the Galerie Marcel Guiot.

His work was widely exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe and the United States. His works are in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Brooklyn Museum; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum, London; the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London; the Museum of Modern Art and the New York Public Library, New York; the Luxembourg Museum and Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris; the library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Winnipeg Art Gallery; the Museum of Luxembourg; the Metropolitan Museum and the Smithsonian Art Museum, and Yale Art Gallery.

Mr. Logan was a member of the American Society of Graphic Arts, the Salon Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, Societe de la Gravure, Originale en Noir, the Chicago Society of Etchers, Boston Print Makers, etc, and was a founder and member of the Standing Committee on Artist’s Oil Paints, Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.