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Hicks adapted this verse to include a reference to William Penn, whose humane treatment of Native Americans endeared him to generations of Quakers. A vignette of Penn’s treaty with the Indians, copied from Benjamin West’s famous painting, appears in the background as it does in many of Hicks’s Peaceable Kingdoms.
Exhibition History“The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks,” Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, VA, June 4, 2000 – September 4, 2000.
“Folk Art Masters,” The Mennello Museum of American Folk Art, Orlando, FL, September 19, 2001 – January 6, 2002.
“American Treasures from the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York,” The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, February 11, 2004 – April 16, 2004.
“Art of the Everman: American Folk Art from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, May 28, 2014 – September 29, 2014.
BibliographyAlice Ford, Edward Hicks: Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom, (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), pp. cover illustration, opposite 80, 140, ill.
Paul S. D’Ambrosio, Folk Art’s Many Faces: Portraits in the New York State Historical Association, (Cooperstown, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1987).
Artist
Edward Hicks
(1780 - 1849)
Peaceable Kingdom
Date1825-1830
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 37 3/4 × 43 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (95.9 × 110.5 × 4.4 cm)
Sight: 30 1/4 × 35 1/2 in. (76.8 × 90.2 cm)
Object numberN0037.1961
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThe Peaceable Kingdom paintings by Edward Hicks, of which sixty-two are known to exist, are among the most widely recognized icons of American folk art today. Hicks was raised in a Quaker household and became a highly respected Quaker minister, and his Peaceable Kingdoms strongly reflect his religious values and beliefs. This version of Hicks’s Peaceable Kingdom includes a block-lettered verse from Isaiah 11:6-9.Hicks adapted this verse to include a reference to William Penn, whose humane treatment of Native Americans endeared him to generations of Quakers. A vignette of Penn’s treaty with the Indians, copied from Benjamin West’s famous painting, appears in the background as it does in many of Hicks’s Peaceable Kingdoms.
Exhibition History“The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks,” Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, VA, June 4, 2000 – September 4, 2000.
“Folk Art Masters,” The Mennello Museum of American Folk Art, Orlando, FL, September 19, 2001 – January 6, 2002.
“American Treasures from the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York,” The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, February 11, 2004 – April 16, 2004.
“Art of the Everman: American Folk Art from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, May 28, 2014 – September 29, 2014.
BibliographyAlice Ford, Edward Hicks: Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom, (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), pp. cover illustration, opposite 80, 140, ill.
Paul S. D’Ambrosio, Folk Art’s Many Faces: Portraits in the New York State Historical Association, (Cooperstown, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1987).
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