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Ethel Herrick Warwick, American, 1881-1961, oil on canvas

Ethel Herrick Warwick, American, 1881-1961; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut; landscape, interior, still life, and portrait painting; influenced by: Fern Coppedge. “The Village Pump” is signed lower right: Ethel H. Warwick; and titled on verso. R.H. Love label and Fair exhibition label of 1923 on verso. This pointillist painting depicts a central female figure pumping water into a wooden bucket. She is dressed in a rolled-up long-sleeved blouse with a long skirt and apron, and a white bonnet covering. She looks to ducks that stand a few feet in front of her. Behind her lies a white picket fence and a house. This beautiful pointillist oil painting boasts an amalgamation of bright and softened colors. Ethel Warwick studied at the Moore Institute of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Fred Wagner, Hugh Breckenridge, Henry B. Snell, Earl Horter, and E. O’Hara. In addition, she was instructed by the artists Francis Speight, Nicola D’Ascenzo, and George Laurence Nelson. Her painting process began not with preliminary sketches but with sparse charcoal gestures upon the canvas. She often painted beside Fern Coppedge, Katherine Farrell, and Elizabeth Washington. She exhibited annually at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and at the National League of American Pen Women. In addition, she exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Woodmere Art Museum, and the Philadelphia Plastic Club. Warwick was the first woman to earn a solo exhibition at the Philadelphia Art Alliance.