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Description: Titled verso â€aeEaster Plant”, painting is signed by the artist in the upper left. Shows a picture of purple and pink hued hydrangea and Pussywillows tied in a pink ribbon in a vase. The painting also has greens and blues, on a background of brown tones, Label on stretcher reads Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc. Vanderbilt Ave. New York NY. Biography: Josephine Paddock (April 18, 1885 â€" 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. Material: Oil on canvas Maker/Artist: Josephine Paddock Date: 20th century Provenance: New York City Estate Size of Artwork: H. 24 x W. 18 Weight (LBS) 7.2 Condition: not linedno craquelureUnder UV inspection no inpaint. History: The Grand Central Art Galleries were the exhibition and administrative space of the nonprofit Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, an artists' cooperative established in 1922 by Walter Leighton Clark together with John Singer Sargent, Edmund Greacen, and others.[1] Artists closely associated with the Grand Central Art Galleries included Hovsep Pushman, George de Forest Brush, and especially Sargent, whose posthumous show took place there in 1928.[2]The Galleries were active from 1923 until 1994.[3] For 29 years they were located on the sixth floor of Grand Central Terminal. At their 1923 opening, the Galleries covered 14,000 square feet (1,300 m2) and offered nine exhibition areas and a reception room,[4] described as "the largest sales gallery of art in the world."[5] In 1958 the Galleries moved to the second floor of the Biltmore Hotel, where they had six exhibition rooms and an office.[6] They remained at the Biltmore for 23 years, until it was converted into an office building.[7] The Galleries then moved to 24 West 57th Street, where they remained until they ceased activity.[8]In addition to their main offices, the Grand Central Art Galleries directed a number of other enterprises. They launched the Grand Central School of Art in 1923, opened a branch gallery at Fifth Avenue and 51st Street in 1933,[9] and in 1947 established Grand Central Moderns[10] to show non-figurative works. The Grand Central Art Galleries were also responsible for the creation, design, and construction of the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale