Russian born, Maurice Molarsky was a figure, portrait, and still-life painter in classical style.  He also did an occasional marine scene.

Molarsky settled in Philadelphia where he was a student at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art.  He also studied in France and England and the Philadelphia Art Alliance.  Molarsky was a fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy and a member of the Allied Artists of America. 

Exhibition venues included the Pennsylvania Academy, Corcoran Gallery Biennials, Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, and the Philadelphia Sketch Club.

Source:

Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art