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,... Read full 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... Read full 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... Read full 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... Read full 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 encourag... Read full biography
Morris Pancoast - Art for Sale (2 available)
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Winter Scene
Type:Painting
Year:1910
Size:28.00" x 32.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Notes:
Excellent condition. Wide gilded frame.
"Main Street"
Type:Painting
Year:1930
Size:12.00" x 16.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Notes:
Illustrated in "New Hope for American Art", page 375.