Josephine Paddock was an American painter born in New York City.
Education
She earned a Bachelor of Arts 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.
Career
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. 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).
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. The Josephine Paddock Fellowship is the highest award for graduate studies in the arts at Barnard College, Columbia University, in New York City.
Membership
Paddock was a member of the American Watercolor Society, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, New Haven Paint & Clay Club, Grand Central Art Gallery, New York City, North Shore Art Association, Gloucester, Master of Arts, American Artist Professional League.