
Gunthers Mill on The San
Antonio River
Signed C.C. Pancoast


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Clara Caffrey
Pancoast
(1873-1959) was born
in Louisiana on a plantation and moved to San Antonio in 1888.
Clara Pancoast
studied art & music at the Home Institute in New Orleans, LA. and was
one of Jose Arpa's prize students during the 1920's in San Antonio, Texas,
entering her canvases in many local, state and national exhibits, including
the important Edgar B. Davis competition.
Pancoast was a
journalist at the San Antonio Express News and the San Antonio Light. A writer by
profession, an artist by choice and retired from writing in 1926 and became
a full time artist. She is best known for her impressionistic landscapes bursting with color. She also painted florals, old buildings, the missions of San
Antonio and occasionally people were included in her subjects.
For one year Pancoast taught art at Sul Ross School of Art in
Alpine, Texas.

Over the years the works of Pancoast have been discovered
and appreciated
by collectors
after Richard Plumly, Fine
Arts of Texas, purchased 60 paintings in 1996 and found collectors
immediately interested and most sold within a month. There have been
numerous exhibits including her works. Her paintings are illustrated in art
books: "Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West"; "Art For
History's Sake"; and the "Dictionary of Texas Artists
by Grauer, and others.
Pancoast
Exhibited her works at the San Antonio Art League; Texas Fine Arts
Association; Edgar B. Davis Competion at the Witte Museum in San
Antonio, Texas and the Southern States Art League.
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