Caption: James Cornell's Prize Bull, by Edward Hicks, 1846.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va.
Caption: Residence of David Twining, by Edward Hicks. After Edward Hicks" mother died in 1781, he lived with the Twining family in Bucks County. In the 1840s, he painted four scenes of the Twining farm from his memories of how it appeared in the 1780s.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va.
Caption: Residence of Thomas Hillborn by Edward Hicks. The Hillborn Farm, Newtown Township, Bucks County, PA.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va.
Caption: In the 1830s and 1840s, Quaker lay minister Edward Hicks completed a series of idealized paintings of the bounty and orderliness of the farms of southeastern Pennsylvania. In this 1849 painting of the Leedom farm of Bucks County, Hicks pictured livestock that would have been the envy of farmers elsewhere in the United States.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va.
Caption: Edward Hicks painted more than sixty versions of the Peaceable Kingdom, variations on the Quaker theme of peace and brotherly love.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va.
Caption: Many scholars feel that the Peaceable Kingdoms represent the Hicks" feelings and beliefs depicting the conflict between the inward spiritual and religious life and the outward worldly life. Many contend that Hicks" was driven by his need to visualize the lessons he learned from Isaiah's prophecy and the importance to "Quaker quietism, such lessons centered on denying or relinquishing the willful self".
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler 1980.62.15
Caption: Oil on canvas of child, animals, and Penn's treaty. Inscription reads, "The Leopard and the harmless kid laid down and not one savage beast was seen to frown. The wolf with the lambkin dwell in peace. His grim carnivorous nature there did cease. The lion with the fatling on did move. A little child was leading them in love. When the great PENN his famous treaty made, with Indian Chiefs beneath the elms shade."
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bequest of Charles C. Willis, 1956.
Caption: The calm procession of beasts has a stately rhythm that embodies the gravity of God's command that they enter the ark to escape the approaching flood. The grayish green horizon with black clouds looming above intensifies the drama of the impending fate.
Courtesy of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bequest of Lisa Norris Elkins, 1950
Caption: In "An Indian summer view of the Farm and Stock OF JAMES C. CORNELL of Northampton Bucks county Pennsylvania," Edward Hicks beautifully captured the richness of Pennsylvania's farm economy in the early 1800s. Behind the prize-winning livestock--their place in the foreground indicating their importance--one can see the large stone farmhouse, massive barn, full corn cribs, and an ochard and wood lots in the background.
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. 1964.23.4: http://www.nga.gov
Caption: The Landing of Columbus, by Edward Hicks, c. 1837.
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. 1980.62.13
Caption: The Declaration of Independence, by Edward Hicks.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va.