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More Pancoast images

Colors. A friend wanted to see more of Pancoast's colors, so I searched the web and was pleased to find these images (some being currently offered for sale). What a fine surprise to see them. I have not enhanced the colors but have tried to pass along the colors in the images I found, surprising though they may be. I assumed that a gallery would want to reproduce colors accurately. And a person who owns Pancoast's works wrote me, "I thought that the colors [on your web page] were pretty realistic as I have seen three of the paintings in person (including the one called Mel's Landing)." Another person who owns three other paintings writes, "I am responding to your question about the [colors in the] Pancoast paintings on your web site. I know that the colors seem to be in a very high-key. I am pleased to report that they are true."

Please have patience while the images load on this page. While you wait, here is some Pancoast biographical information.

Morris Hall Pancoast bio info from the web:

Morris Pancoast (1877-1963) was born in Salem, New Jersey, and gained recognition for his Impressionist New England shore scenes and winter landscapes, of particularly the Cape Ann and Rockport, Massachusetts, areas. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts under Thomas Anshutz and at the Julien Academy in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens.

By the 1920s, Pancoast and his wife had moved to New York City where he worked as a freelance illustrator and painter. It was at this time that Pancoast’s career began to blossom. His work was shown at the Pennsylvania Academy, the Brooklyn Museum, and the National Academy of Design. After the economic crash of 1929, the Pancoasts left the city and traveled through Maine, Florida, and Massachusetts, selling antiques. It was during this period of Morris’ life that he executed his best Impressionist works, almost all of peaceful New England sights.

The Pancoasts eventually settled down in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Pancoast used his small house as a gallery and studio and his wife operated an antique shop. His impressive memberships included: the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the Gloucester Society of Artists, the North Shore Arts Association, the Pennsylvania Academy Society of Artists, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Philadelphia Sketch Club, and the Salmagundi Club. Pancoast’s public connections were with the J.B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Municipal Art League in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Some of these images are currently for sale, though quite expensive, unfortunately. Mother McCary's Chickens, for example, was offered at $22,000.

"The Artist's Home, Rockport [Mass.]" 13.5 x 17.5 inches. Painted in Rockport circa 1915.

"Mel's Landing, Gloucester" 28 x 32 inches. Exhibited 1921.

"Pigeon Hill." Wood board, 14 x 18 inches.

"Summer's Day, Lane's Cove" [Cape Ann, Mass.] Oil on canvas. 8 x 10 inches.

[Title not known.]

Landscape with horses, oil on artists board, 8" x 10"

"The Street in Winter," oil on board, 7 7/8 x 9 7/8, signed lower left. Executed near New Hope, Pennsylvania?

"Sunset at Lane's Cove."

Harbor Scene	Harbor Scene with fishing boats at dock

"The Gloucester Paint Factory" Oil on canvas. 9.5 x 7.5 inches.

The Bustling Harbor, ca. 1930s
(Oil on board, 17-3/4 x 21-7/8 inches)
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Title unknown.

Harbor Scene
(Oil on masonite, 12 x 16 inches)

Philadelphia in Winter
oil on canvas, 18 x 15 inches.
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Vivid Springtime Mountainside Landscape, watercolor, 21" x 27", Pencil signed verso "Morris Hall Pancoast, Spring '51". This is a favorite of mine yet sold in 1999 for only $150.

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