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Josephine Paddock

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Josephine Paddock
Born(1885-04-18)April 18, 1885
Died1964(1964-00-00) (aged 78–79)
EducationBarnard College; Art Students League
Known forPainting

Josephine Paddock (April 18, 1885 – 1964) was an American painter born in New York City. She earned a B.A. degree at Barnard College and studied at the Art Students League with Robert Henri, Kenyon Cox, William Merritt Chase, and John Alexander.[1]

Her sister Ethel Louise Paddock was born two years later. She also studied with Henri and would also become a painter and a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[2][3] Both sisters would go on to exhibit at Henri's Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910,[3] a show that in some ways was a prototype for the Armory Show three years later.

Armory Show of 1913

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Paddock was one of the artists who exhibited at this landmark show. The show included three of her watercolors. These were: Swans on the grass ($50), Swan study-peace ($50), and Swan study-aspiration ($50).[4]

Her work was among forty-eight 19th and 20th Century paintings in the collection of Seymour R. Thaler and Mildred Thaler Cohen which was bequeathed to the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut, in 2000.

Paddock was a member of the American Watercolor Society, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, New Haven Paint & Clay Club, Grand Central Art Gallery, NYC, North Shore Art Association, Gloucester, MA, American Artist Professional League.[5]

The Josephine Paddock Fellowship is the highest award for graduate studies in the arts at Barnard College, Columbia University, in New York City.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Artist Biographies: Josephine Paddock, 1885-1964". Fine Old Art. Archived from the original on 12 June 2007. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  2. ^ Fielding, Mantle; Opitz, Glenn B. (1986). Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers. Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo Books. ISBN 9780938290049. OCLC 14211054.
  3. ^ a b "A Finding Aid to the Josephine Paddock papers, circa 1890-1963". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  4. ^ Brown, Milton W., "The Story of the Armory Show", The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, pp. 274–75
  5. ^ "Paddock, Josephine, b. 1885". Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America, The Frick Collection. Archived from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
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