Memphis TN", pencil signed, 4" x 5 1/4", listed artist. This biography from the Archives of AskART: James Carl Hancock was born in Springville, Tennessee in 1898, to E. M. and Myrtle Hancock. The family moved to Arkansas in the early 1900s, and Carl Hancock attended school in Brinkley and Stuttgart. He moved to the Little Rock area in 1917, and was a long-time resident of North Little Rock. Hancock was a self-taught etcher, designer, painter, and commercial artist. He sketched many scenes and architectural subjects in and around Little Rock, Arkansas, Memphis, Tennessee, New Orleans and St. Francisville, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi. He produced many works of a commercial nature, including souvenir sketches and Christmas cards. Hancock was author and illustrator of New Orleans Etchings, Drypoints and Sketches, published in 1938. Carl Hancock was a member of the Southern States Art League, the Southern Printmakers Society, and the Mississippi Art Association. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art (1947 and 1959,) Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975, and Who is Who in Arkansas, by Bessie Butler Allard. He died in January 1966. Source: This biography is submitted by a researcher at the Ashworth Collection of Native American and Western art. Material for this biography is from the U of Arkansas website: http://www.cals.lib.ar.us/butlercenter/manuscripts/collection/mss99-05.html