Paddock - Willard

Paddock, Willard D. (1873-1956)

Willard Paddock was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1873. He attended public grammar schools and a year and a half of high school. He studied art at the School of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute, and at the Ecole de Beaux Arts and the Academy Collarossi, both in Paris. At various times in his life Paddock studied in Florence, Rome, and Naples. In 1904 Paddock began visiting  Connecticut, and in 1910 he and the painter Francis Von Der Lancken moved to New Milford and set up studios. By the 1930’s Paddock was living in Kent. Over the years he had taught drawing, modeling, and anatomy at the Pratt Institute. During the WPA Federal Arts Project he painted The Outlook of Education mural at the New Milford School, modeled a bust of Roger Sherman for a memorial, and painted around 25 landscapes. Paddock died in Kent in 1956.

Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Biography; Who Was Who in American Art (1985), p. 465; Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, p. 689; AskART; “New Milford”; see Frank von der Lancken’s 1904 portrait of Paddock; “Kent Art Exhibition To Open on August 19,” Hartford Courant, August 2, 1933;New York Times: “60 Women Compete in Art Exhibition,” March 21, 1926; Lloyd Goodrich, “A Round of Galleries,” April 7, 1929; Lloyd Goodrich, “Further Comment on the Art Exhibitions of the Week,” April 14, 1929; “Article 13—No Title,” April 21, 1929; “The Salmagundi Club,” June 2, 1929; Edward A. Jewell, “Art,” February 12, 1931; “Sketching Merry del Val,” June 7, 1908; “Sculptor Has Operation,” June 8, 1934.

Works of Art Listed in CT Archives’ database from Willard Paddock:

Paddock, Willard