Last fall was an especially memorable time for Logan Maxwell Hagege, whose surname hints at his French ancestry. He married Misty Zollars, who owns a denim company that makes women’s jeans. And he earned the Best of Show Purchase Award at the 2015 Quest for the West Exhibition at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, Indiana. His colorful Native American image, Land With No Time, is now included in the museum’s permanent collection.

Hagege also is a regular participant in the Masters of the American West exhibition at the Autry National Center for the American West in Los Angeles, California; the Prix de West exhibition at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and the Booth Museum of Western Art in Cartersville, Georgia. Each of those museums also has at least one of Hagege’s paintings in their permanent collections.

Logan Maxwell Hagege (California)

Billowing
Oil
20″x16″
“An artist I greatly admire is the Austrian born Gustav Klimt. His ability to balance nearly abstract two-dimensional against fully rendered three-dimensional objects in his paintings is something that has stuck with me since my early days as an art student. In this painting I tried my best to set the relatively ‘realistically’ rendered figure against a rather two-dimensional background.”

Logan Maxwell Hagege (California)

Land With No Time
Oil
40″x40″
“Each time I travel through the Southwest, I feel like time stands still. The land is timeless, especially if you can get deep enough into the desert, where the sound of the highway fades. Time slows, senses strengthen and, with this magnified sensitivity, inspiring visions can be seen at any moment. This piece is now part of the Eiteljorg Museum’s permanent collection.”