This is an original oil painting on board by noted painter and illustrator Morris Hall Pancoast (American, 1877-1963). Born in Salem, New Jersey in 1877, Pancoast began taking classes at age twenty at the Pennsylvania Academy, where he studied under Thomas Anshutz. His educational pursuits later took him to Paris in 1902 where he trained at the Académie Julian under Jean Paul Laurens. Following three years of study in Europe, Pancoast returned to the United States where he worked as an illustrator for the "Philadelphia Inquirer" from 1905-1907 and as a cartoonist at the North American from 1907-1919. The artist and his wife moved to New York City in the 1920s, though the couple spent their summers in Rockport, Massachusetts. Pancoast was a frequent exhibitor at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1911 and continued to show until 1934.

This framed oil painting is titled White Night and featuers a snowy landscape scene with a lone cabin on the horizon. There is a partial original artist's label on the reverse with Pancoast's address in Philadelphia. The price was set at $40. The board is backed with a newspaper sheet dated to June of 1910. The painting is signed on the lower left corner.

Frame: 9 5/8 x 17"
Sight: 16 x 13 3/8"
Board: 16 3/8 x 13 3/4"

Minor wear to the frame