Paddock, along with fellow artist Theresa Bernstein, contributed to a large, diverse exhibition of the work of over 100 women artists benefiting women’s suffrage in 1915 at MacBeth Galleries in New York. One year later, Paddock and Bernstein, along with Louise Upton Brumback, Cecilia Beaux, and Jane Peterson, exhibited in the first season of the Gallery-on-the-Moors – making a significant impact on Gloucester’s cultural life, leading to the establishment of the North Shore Arts Association.
Ethel Louise Paddock
Rocky Neck
A member of the National Association of Women Artists, Ethel Louise Paddock studied under Robert Henri and John Sloan, two major figures in American art. She and her sister, Josephine, frequently painted together in Gloucester, and also exhibited together. Her airy modernist technique embodies the modernist movement of the period, and yet is distinctly a style of her own.
Outgoing Tide, Good Harbor Beach
An independent, creative modernist, Ethyl Louise Paddock studied under Robert Henri and John Sloan, at the New York School of Art. She and her artist sister, Josephine, frequently painted together in Gloucester, and also exhibited together at the National Association of Women Artists, where both were members. Good Harbor Beach was one of her favorite Cape Ann subjects.