The Peaceable Kingdom
c. 1816–18
Edward Hicks
Edward Hicks (American, 1780–1849)
American Painting and Sculpture
The Peaceable Kingdom, c. 1816–18. Edward Hicks (American, 1780–1849). Oil on canvas; unframed: 47.6 x 59.7 cm (18 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1945.38 Hicks painted more than 60 versions of the Peaceable Kingdom, and this example is likely the first.
- Maker/Artist
- Hicks, Edward
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 47.6 x 59.7 cm (18 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1945.38
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Exhibitions
- Primitive Art and Folk Art, In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Works of Edward Hicks, Four Pennsylvania Self-Taught Artists: Edward Hicks, Joseph Pickett, John Kane, Horace Pippin, The Hand and the Spirit: Religious Art in America 1700 - 1900, The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks, Philadelphia, Friends Historical Association (1944). <br>Akron, OH, Akron Art Institute, 40 American Painters: A Survey of American Painting from Colonial to Modern Times (December, 1945), illus. cat. no. 6.<br>Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati Art Museum, Rediscoveries in American Painting (3 October-6 November 1955), cat. no. 55, listed p. 26, not illus. <br>Oberlin, OH, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Anniversary Exhibition of Oberlin College (15-30 October 1958).<br>Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, Animals, Real and Imaginary (15 November-1 March 1960)<br>Williamsburg, VA, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Edward Hicks 1780-184 9: A Special Exhibition Devoted to His Life and Work (30 September-30 October 1960), illus. cat. no. 5, p. 10.<br>Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Hicks, Kane, Pippin: Three Self-Taught Pennsylvania Artists (21 October-4 December 1966); traveled to Washington, DC, The Corcoran Gallery of Art (6 January -19 February 1967); illus. cat. no. 1, dates the work c. 1820.<br>Berkeley, University of California Art Museum, The Hand and the Spirit: Religious Art in America 1700-1900 (28 June-27 August 1972); traveled to Washington, DC, National Collection of Fine Arts (29 September-5 November 1972); to Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (10 December 1972-14 January 1973); to Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art (20 February-15 April 1973); cat. no. 37; not illustrated; dated c. 1820-1830.<br>New York, NY, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Edward Hicks: A Gentle Spirit (text by Eleanore Price Mather), (May 16-June 28 1975). <br>Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, American Folk Art from the Traditional to the Naive (4 October-24 December 1978); illus. cat. no. 57, p. 86.<br>Williamsburg, VA, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks (5 February-5 September 1999); traveled to Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art (10 October 1999-2 January 2000); to Denver, Denver Art Museum (5 February-30 April 2000); to new York, NYSHA Fenimore Museum (3 June-6 September 2000); to San Francisco, Folk Art Museum of San Francisco and de Young (24 September 2000-7 January 2001), illus. no. 28, p. 52, dated 1816-1818; details illus. nos. 79, 80, p. 91, no. 81, p. 92, listed in checklist, no. 1, p. 189.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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