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Harold Hancock

Harold Hancock (1920 - 2006) was active/lived in Indiana, Illinois.  Harold Hancock is known for Commercial poster illustration, landscape, portrait and mural painting.

Artist Harold Hancock
by Joanne Nesbit

Artist Harold Hancock was born in 1920 in a small coal-mining town near Harrisburg, Illinois. By his second year in elementary school Harold had a passion for art. Having had to drop out of the first grade because of a bout with Typhoid Fever, he returned to school with a vengeance. By the fourth grade, he had entered a poster contest and won first place. His taste for success and didn't stop there. He kept drawing and painting all through grade school and continued with four years of high school art classes—two more years than the normal routine.

During his last years of high school Hancock rode around with his bike loaded with paints. He painted three restaurant windows, earning 35 cents a window. The pictures rendered were of the foods and plate lunches offered by the restaurants. All these ventures into art and entrepreneurship were supported by his parents.
Hancock turned down two college scholarships to open a studio. He   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4040 characters.]  Artist bio

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