This is an original oil painting on canvas 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 painting features a snowy winter scene of the exterior of the train station in Philadephia. Signed on the lower right.

Frame: 36 3/4" x 32 3/4"
Sight:31 1/4 x 27 3/8"
Stretcher: 32 x 28"

The painted surface exhibits craquelure. Scattered wear and losses to the frame. There is an old reline.