Born in Bellingham, Washington, Helen A. Loggie is best known for her etchings depicting Pacific Northwest nature and the local landscape surrounding the home she built on Orcas Island, Washington in 1930. Before settling on Orcas Island, Logie attended Smith College and the Art Students League of New York, where she studied painting alongside George Bellows and George Luks. While there, she was introduced to the process of etching, but it wasn't until meeting John Taylor Arms in 1929 that etching became her primary medium. Under his tutelage and encouragement Loggie developed her technical skills and followed his example of traveling to Europe, where she created numerous studies of architectural details and city streets. Loggie and Arms remained lifelong friends and colleagues, with Arms proofing many of her etching plates throughout her career.
Loggie has exhibited work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and various other institutions. The Helen Loggie Museum of Art, located in a historic building in Old Town Bellingham, Washington, is dedicated to her life and work, housing an extensive collection of Loggie's drawings, etchings, oils and pastels, as well as personal ephemera and memorabilia.
