Morris Hall Pancoast, American Impressionist, SLL, pastel, New England Nautical Scene, 9 x 12”, 17 x 20” framed.I removed the pastel to show the vibrancy of the colors and the condition.
Born in Salem, New Jersey, Morris Hall Pancoast was a painter, illustrator, and cartoonist. He took night courses at Drexel University and enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Anshutz in 1897. He then went to Paris to further his studies at the Académie Julian with Jean Paul Laurens from 1902-1905. While in Paris, he met Minnie Leahy, the woman that would become his wife.
Upon his return to the United States, Pancoast settled in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, near the home of his close friend and mentor, Thomas Anshutz. He joined the Art Department of the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1905 until 1907, and then worked as a cartoonist for the Philadelphia North American newspaper from 1907 to 1919. In 1912, he and Minnie were married.
By the early 1920s, Pancoast’s painting career was flourishing. His popular impressionist landscapes of Pennsylvania and New England tows were regularly being accepted into major exhibitions around the country, and, in 1924, he was awarded Gold Medal by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Around this time, he and his wife began spending summers in Rockport, Massachusetts, where they would eventually reside full time.
He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Philadelphia Sketch Club; the Salmagundi Club; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Brooklyn Museum; the Corcoran Gallery Biennials; the Society of Independent Artists; the National Academy of Design; the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco; the Allied Artists of America; the Norfolk Art Museum; the Gloucester Society of Artists; and the Rockport Art Association.

17 x 20 in

10 lb