Legacy
From 1930 onwards, he kept a studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts, to which he ultimately retired. Saima Natti Hancock, his wife of 40 years, died in 1984. The Cape Ann Historical Association (Gloucester, MA) mounted a 1989 retrospective exhibition of his works, and published his autobiography, A Sculptor's Fortunes (1997).
He endowed Massachusetts's Walker Hancock Prize, given for excellence in the arts. The National Sculpture Society has an annual prize named for him. His papers are at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution and in the Hancock Family Archives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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