Edith Dimock was an American painter whose fresh watercolors were usually of charming scenes often displaying a caustic sense of humor. Committed to women’s rights, her paintings chronicle women and children of the lower and middle classes out shopping, talking, walking, and usually seen in motion. Her style reminds us of whimsical drawings typically found in children’s books yet her use of simplified shapes of modernism feel very sophisticated. The Evening Star reviews her 1904 exhibition, “Miss Dimock is not unorthodox at all. She comes to her world very unconventionally, free from pictorial prejudice, and with a purpose which is not complicated by unsettled notions. Her attitude to life is the precise antithesis of the attitude that prevails in this exhibition, where unattached sentiment rules and the ‘picture instinct’ is so much too strong for original observation. Here is an artist with a definite aim, a keen fresh vision.”