Josephine Paddock (American, 1885-1964) oil on canvas painting titled Easter Plant of purple and pink hydrangea flowers and pussy willow branches in a blue and white jar vase with a pink bow. Signed upper left. Old label on stretcher read Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc. Vanderbilt Ave. New York NY.. Artwork in period ornate gold wood frame measures 31" x 25". Artwork and frame in very good, vintage condition with light wear. Light spotting on bottom edge of linen liner. Last photos are Paddock's previous auction results (before buyer's premium).
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. Her sister, Ethel Louise Paddock, born two years later and who also studied with Henri would also become a painter and a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. 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. 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.The Josephine Paddock Fellowship is the highest award for graduate studies in the arts at Barnard College, Columbia University, in New York City.
