Alberts, Robert C. Benjamin West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.
This book is an extensive biography (525 pages) of Benjamin West, complete with illustrations.
Corpus, Rolando. Philadelphia Museum of Art Spotlight on The Peaceable Kingdom (June 1994).
This handout information was provided by the museum educator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Dimond, V. Scott. Philadelphia Museum of Art Spotlight on Noah's Ark (March 1994).
This handout information was provided by the museum educator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Flexner, James Thomas. America's Old Masters: Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Wilson Peale and Gilbert Stuart. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1994.
This book, first published in 1939, is one of the first books devoted to American Art. This republication features 69 illustrations and offers with the Appendix a revised version of Flexner's article, "Benjamin West's American Neo-classicism," originally published in the New York Historical Society Quarterly, XXXVI (1952). The first section of the book focuses on Benjamin West, "The American Raphel," and would provide additional background information for this painter featured in this lesson.
Ford, Alice. Edward Hicks: His Life and Art. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985.
Throughout this book fifty color plates and 100 halftones are presented including Hicks' pastoral landscapes and his folk renditions of William Penn, Noah's ark, and David and Jonathan.
Weekly, Carolyn. The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999.
