Harold Maddock, Castle de San Marco, oil on board, 12 by 16 inches. Signed and dated 1958, verso.
Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Harold Maddocks, helped organize the Rockport Art Association. His life-long love of the sea was reflected in his talent for seascapes. Like many Cape Ann artists Maddocks spent his winters in Florida, first coming to St. Augustine for the winter season of 1941. He was an active member of the St. Augustine Art Club for the next twenty years. The St. Augustine Record, February 24, 1947, “Again from the Rockport contingent: Harold Maddocks shows that colony’s famous ‘Motif No. 1,’ the fishing house so called because virtually every artist to visit Rockport has painted it, and he also has a most realistic and academic still life, a heavy-laden table with finely blended and rich colors.”
Harold Maddocks, Spuds, Fla.,1948, oil on Masonite 11 5/8 by 15 1/2 inches. Signed titled and dated verso.
Born: 1889, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Died: 1963, St. Augustine. Education: Gloucester High School; Massachusetts Normal School with Joseph DeCamp; Copley Society, Boston. Mildred Jones, Aldro T. Hibbard, and Harry Ballinger. Membership: St. Augustine Arts Club; Artists Guild of St. Augustine; Florida Federation of Art; Copley Society of Boston; Rockport Art Association. Exhibits: Pinellas County Fair, 1941, 1st prize, marine oil painting; Florida Federation of Art, 15th Annual, 1942, best marine; St. Augustine Arts Club, February 1947, Motif No. 1; SAAC, January 1948, The St. Johns River, portrait, A Good Cook; SAAC, February 1948, Lobsterin; St. Augustine Art Association, January 1951, Blue Heron Award, Portrait of a Cauliflower; SAAA, February 1952, honorable mention, oil, Portrait Study; Brush and Palette, Aviles Street, January 1953; March of Dimes, Outdoor Exhibit, St. Augustine Plaza, February 1953, 2nd most popular painting, Still Life; SAAA, February 1955, special mention, portrait, Josephine; SAAA, Exchange Bank of St. Augustine, February 1956, Cactus; Artists’ Guild of St. Augustine, farewell exhibit, January 1957.
Maddocks, Harold, Two Cabins with Chickens, oil on canvas, 17 1/8 by 21 1/8inches. Signed lower right.
