Kingdoms of Edward Hicks

By Carolyn Weekley

Book Overview

Edwards Hicks (1780-1849), creator of the Peaceable Kingdom paintings, is among the best-loved American folk artists. Published to accompany a 1999 travelling exhibition in the US, this volume draws on the collection of Hicks's work at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center in Williamsburg, Virginia. The book integrates and discusses his secular and religious concerns (he was a Quaker minister) as they affected his artistic production.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810912341
• ISBN13: 9780810912342
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 3.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 11.3"
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Keen and largely trustworthy insight

Carolyn Weekley largely earns the reader's trust in this perceptive portrayal of the Quaker culture which produced The Peaceable Kingdoms. True, our understanding of the many controversies at the heart of the Hicksite Schism has progressed since her book was published. For instance, Weekley passes over without comment the subversive, gender-bent iconography portrayed in the myserious "Jonathan and David at the Stone Ezel." In addition, she fails to recognize Edward's place at the edge of the powerful maritime dynasty which was explored by Robert A. Davison in Isaac Hicks, New York Merchant and Quaker, 1767-1820. But otherwise the biography succeeds as a much-needed portrait of the artist in a spiritual context.