Morris Hall Pancoast (1877 - 1963) American
Oil on Board
Measure 8 1/4"in H x 11 1/4"in W and 12"in H x 15"in W with frame
Known for: Shore-winter view painting, illustration
Biography: Morris Hall Pancoast was an artist whose life was various and at time difficult. By age fifty-two, he was seemingly a successful artist in New York City, exhibiting at the National Academy of Design, Brooklyn Museum and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. But his life, like so many others, was violently wrenched from its accustomed path by the disaster of the 1929 financial crash. For the next sixteen years or so, Pancoast and his wife, an aging couple, literally became traveling salesmen of antiques in Florida, Massachusetts and Maine. In 1945, in a small rented house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Pancoast's wife opened an antique shop and tearoom, while the artist ran an art gallery and had his studio. Morris Pancoast was born in 1877 in Salem, New Jersey. He despised routine jobs, wanting badly to be an artist. He received a break of sorts in 1895 when he was encouraged in his desire to study art by an illustrator, Frederick R. Gruger, for the Philadelphia Public ledger newspaper, where Pancoast had been hired as an assistant cashier and bookkeeper. Because of his inexperience, he could not get a job in the paper's art department, despite studying nights at Drexel University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Pancoast was an Impressionist who generally painted peaceful winter landscapes and scenes of the New England shore, though there can be an expressionist freedom of brushwork, intensity of color and darkness of mood. He died in 1963.
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