Josephine Paddock
{{Short description|American painter}}
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Josephine Paddock (April 18, 1885 – February 20, 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.{{Cite web |title=Artist Biographies: Josephine Paddock, 1885-1964 |url=http://www.fineoldart.com/browse_by_essay.html?essay=527 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612220214/http://fineoldart.com/browse_by_essay.html?essay=527 |archive-date=12 June 2007 |accessdate=14 June 2013 |website=Fine Old Art}}
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.{{Cite book |last=Fielding |first=Mantle |title=Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers |last2=Opitz |first2=Glenn B. |publisher=Apollo Books |year=1986 |isbn=9780938290049 |location=Poughkeepsie, NY |language=en |oclc=14211054}}{{Cite web |title=A Finding Aid to the Josephine Paddock papers, circa 1890-1963 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/josephine-paddock-papers-8312 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209000750/https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/josephine-paddock-papers-8312 |archive-date=9 February 2023 |access-date=24 January 2024 |website=Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |language=en}} Both sisters would go on to exhibit at Henri's Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910, a show that in some ways was a prototype for the Armory Show three years later.
Armory Show of 1913
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).Brown, Milton W., "The Story of the Armory Show", The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, pp. 274–75
File:Josephine Paddock - Swan on the Grass - Armory Show 1913.jpg | Swan on the Grass, 1910 (black & white reproductions)
File:Josephine Paddock - Swan Study Aspiration - Armory Show 1913.jpg | Swan Study - Aspiration, 1910
File:Josephine Paddock - Swan Study Peace - Armory Show 1913.jpg | Swan Study - Peace, 1910
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.{{Cite web |title=Paddock, Josephine, b. 1885 |url=https://research.frick.org/directory/detail/1022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626181948/https://research.frick.org/directory/detail/1022 |archive-date=26 June 2022 |accessdate=14 June 2013 |work=Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America, The Frick Collection}}
The Josephine Paddock Fellowship is the highest award for graduate studies in the arts at Barnard College, Columbia University, in New York City.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20010921043737/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSEUM/Armory/galleryL/galleryl.6.html Three Swan Studies by Josephine Paddock]
- [http://artsalesindex.artinfo.com/asi/results.action;jsessionid=381C7B7CD8F4AD6DCB783625E716E54B Josephine Paddock paintings at Blouin Art Sales Index]
- [http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/josephine-paddock-american-1885-1964-taking-tea-signed-and-dated-j-paddock-1935-nyc-470w Taking Tea, by Josephine Paddock]
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Category:20th-century American painters
Category:20th-century American women painters
Category:Barnard College alumni