The 19th-century Quaker artist Edwards Hicks is arguably the most well-known and beloved of America's folk painters. Born in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the orphan Hicks was apprenticed to... Read full biography
The 19th-century Quaker artist Edwards Hicks is arguably the most well-known and beloved of America's folk painters. Born in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the orphan Hicks was apprenticed to local coach makers William and Henry Tomlinson from 1793 to 1800, to learn the ornamental painting... Read full biography
The 19th-century Quaker artist Edwards Hicks is arguably the most well-known and beloved of America's folk painters. Born in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the orphan Hicks was apprenticed to local coach makers William and Henry Tomlinson from 1793 to 1800, to learn the ornamental painting trade. By 1803 he had married Sarah Worstall of Newtown, Pennsylvania, and was received as a member of the Middletown Monthly Meeting. He became increasingly involved in his meeting's affairs during... Read full biography
The 19th-century Quaker artist Edwards Hicks is arguably the most well-known and beloved of America's folk painters. Born in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the orphan Hicks was apprenticed to local coach makers William and Henry Tomlinson from 1793 to 1800, to learn the ornamental painting trade. By 1803 he had married Sarah Worstall of Newtown, Pennsylvania, and was received as a member of the Middletown Monthly Meeting. He became increasingly involved in his meeting's affairs during these and the years immediately following, and by 1811 was recorded as a Quaker minister at Middletown because of his religious work and popularity as a gifted preacher. It was also during this year that he set up his shop in Newtown and commenced the... Read full biography
The 19th-century Quaker artist Edwards Hicks is arguably the most well-known and beloved of America's folk painters. Born in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the orphan Hicks was apprenticed to local coach makers William and Henry Tomlinson from 1793 to 1800, to learn the ornamental painting trade. By 1803 he had married Sarah Worstall of Newtown, Pennsylvania, and was received as a member of the Middletown Monthly Meeting. He became increasingly involved in his meeting's affairs during these and the years immediately following, and by 1811 was recorded as a Quaker minister at Middletown because of his religious work and popularity as a gifted preacher. It was also during this year that he set up his shop in Newtown and commenced the ornamental painting business he would pursue for the remainder of his life. Hicks was not trained as an eas... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (153)
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Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art
2009
Harris, Adam Duncan
262 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young (De Young Museum)
2005
Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Daniell Cornell
573 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums
2004
Eldredge and Eiland
0 pages (color)
Pennsylvania Impressionism
2002
Gerdts, William; Brian H. Peterson & Yount
340 pages (color)
An American Point of View The Daniel J. Terra Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Kennedy and Bourguignon(essays
194 pages (color)
Gregory Perillo and the Masters of American Western Art
2000
Brodell, James; Peter Occhiogrosso; Louis Zona (foreward)
200 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
1999
Passantino, Erika D (editor)
819 pages (color)
The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks
1999
Weekley, Carolyn; Barry, Laura
312 pages
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from Warner Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Curry, David; Elizabeth O'Leary
78 pages (color)
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876
1997
Lipman, Jean; Alice Winchester
288 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994
Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque
628 pages
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Simpson, Marc
315 pages (color)
American Highlights/Estados Unidos U S History in Notable Works of Art
1993
Pavese, Edith
160 pages (color)
American Naive Paintings (National Gallery Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Chotner, Deborah
668 pages (color)
American Icons
1992
Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor)
390 pages
Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture
1992
Kammen, Michael
192 pages
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties
1992
Wood, Paul (others)
267 pages (color)
Telling Tales 19th Century Narrative Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Pennsylvania Academy
100 pages (color)
America in Art Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
112 pages
American Originals Selections from Reynolda House Museum
1990
Eldredge, Charles C
135 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
American Art/American Vision Paintings from a Century of Collecting (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Schall, Ellen (others)
164 pages (color)
American Canvas The Art, Eye, and Spirit of Pioneer Artists
1990
Tyler, Ron
208 pages (color)
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
A Permanent Legacy Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (150 Works)
1989
Marzio, Peter C (intro)
366 pages (color)
American Folk Paintings Paintings and Drawings Other Than Portraits
1988
Rumford, Beatrix
449 pages (color)
Plain Painters Making Sense of American Folk Art
1988
Vlach, John Michael
206 pages (color)
American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art
1988
Wilmerding, John
208 pages (color)
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox
1987
Schultz, Douglas (Intro)
264 pages (color)
American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
1986
Richardson, Edgar P
157 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Niagara Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes 1697-1901 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Adamson, Jeremy Elwell
167 pages (color)
Edward Hicks His Life and Art
1985
Ford, Alice
276 pages (color)
Dallas Museum of Art Selected Works
1984
Bromberg, Anne R
219 pages (color)
National Gallery of Art, Washington New and Revised Edition (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Walker, John
606 pages (color)
Edward Hicks His Peaceable Kingdoms and Other Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Mather, Eleanore Price
224 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
Lines of Different Character Americn Art from 1727 to 1947 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
106 pages (color)
Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980 (Corcoran Gallery of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Livingston, Jane/J Beardsley
186 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S
1982
Von Blum, Paul
165 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980
1980
Galleries, Hirschl and Adler
112 pages (color)
American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
1980
Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong
233 pages (color)
American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
1980
Wilmerding, John
180 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Folk Painters of America
1979
Bishop, Robert
255 pages (color)
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
An American Bestiary
1979
Haverstock, Mary Sayre
248 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK)
1979
Myers, Fred
106 pages (color)
American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum
1979
Teitz, Richard Stuart
118 pages
Why Art? A Guide to Viewing Contemporary American Art
1978
Daniels, Florence
222 pages
The Eccentrics and Other American Visionary Painters
1978
Davidson, Abraham A
203 pages (color)
The Lure of the Great West
1978
Getlein, Frank
352 pages (color)
American Folk Art Nov. 26-Dec. 29, 1977
1978
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
44 pages (color)
The American View Art from 1770 to 1978 (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Kennedy Galleries
108 pages (color)
Art About Art
1978
Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall
176 pages (color)
American Realism
1978
Mathey, Francois
192 pages
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1978
William Rockhill Nelson G of A
72 pages (color)
Complete Guide to Portrait Painting
1977
Finck, Furman J
206 pages (color)
American Painting From Its Beginnings to the Armory Show
1977
Prown, Jules David; John Walker (Intro)
133 pages (color)
American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present
1977
Prown, Jules/Barbara Rose
277 pages (color)
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
Themes in American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Sweeney, J Gray
220 pages (color)
Collection of American Art Randolph-Macon Women's College
1977
Williams, Mary Frances
211 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Richardson, Edgar P
247 pages (color)
The Second Fifty Years:American Art 1826-1876
1976
Riggs, Timothy A
95 pages
200 Jahre Amerikanische Malerei 1776-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
140 pages (color)
Where Liberty Dwells 19th Century Art by the American People (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Tillou, Peter
114 pages (color)
A Bicentennial Treasury American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan
1976
Tracy, Berry and Howat, John
82 pages (color)
American Folk Painters
1975
Ebert, John and Katherine
225 pages (color)
The Story of American Painting
1974
Davidson, Abraham A
168 pages (color)
Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water An Exhibition of American & Canadian Art (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Frankenstein, Alfred
63 pages (color)
The Indian and the Black Man The Image in American Art
1974
Parry, Ellwood
189 pages
A History of American Painting
1973
Bennett, Ian
240 pages (color)
Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art
1973
Carnegie Institute
196 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
A Peacable Season/Edward Hicks
1973
Mather, Eleanore Price (ed)
60 pages (color)
Art in America A Brief History
1973
McClanathan, Richard
216 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
The Genius of American Painting
1973
Wilmerding, John
352 pages (color)
Masterworks by Pennsylvania Painters in Pennsylvania Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Dickson, Harold E
64 pages (color)
The Hand and Spirit Religious Art in America 1700-1900 (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Dillenberger, Jane/J C Taylor
192 pages (color)
Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery
1972
Neilson, Katharine B
343 pages (color)
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
What Is American in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Goodrich, Lloyd/Mary Black
80 pages (color)
The American Scene 1820-1900 An exhibition of landscape and outdoor genre (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Hawes, Louis
143 pages
Plain and Fancy A Survey of American Folk Art
1970
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
72 pages (color)
Great American Paintings from the Boston and Metropolitan Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Maytham, Thomas N
160 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
American Painting From Its Beginnings to the Armory Show
1970
Prown, Jules/John Walker
145 pages (color)
American Ship Portraits & Marine Painting: Everson Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Sullivan, Max (Foreward); Philip Chadwick Foster Smith
64 pages (color)
History of American Painting 1760-1835 The Light of Distant Skies
1969
Flexner, James Thomas
307 pages
The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century
1969
Garrett, Wendell (others)
412 pages
The American Sense of Reality (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Philbrook Art Center
56 pages
Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Dickson, Harold E
234 pages
Twenty-Five American Masterpieces (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
32 pages (color)
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
The Adams Papers Portraits of John and Abigail Adams
1967
Oliver, Andrew
284 pages
American Folk Painting
1966
Black, Mary/Jean Lipman
244 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Goodrich, Lloyd
150 pages (color)
American Art A Historical Survey
1966
Green, Samuel M
706 pages
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1966
Los Angeles County Museum
143 pages (color)
American Landscape A Changing Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Smithsonian Institution
52 pages
American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum
1965
Gardner, Albert and S Field
284 pages
The Beauty of America in Great American Art (Country Beautiful Foundation)
1965
Goldman, Eric F.; Tracy Atkinson
162 pages (color)
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
Four Centuries of American Masterpieces (Exhibition: The Gallery at the Better Living Center, May22-October 18, 1964) (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Hoopes, Donelson F (Introduction); August Heckscher, (Foreward)
64 pages (color)
American Tradition in Painting
1963
McCoubrey, John W
128 pages
A Short History of Painting in America
1963
Richardson, Edgar P
347 pages (color)
American Muse, The
1961
Dorra, Henri
163 pages (color)
101 Masterpieces of Primitive American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Rorimer, James/JohnWalker
159 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
1957
Eliot, Alexander
318 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
La Pittura Americana Dell' Ottocento
1956
Baur, John I H
58 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
American Painting in the 19th Cent Main Trends and Movements
1953
Baur, John I H
60 pages
American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection
1953
Brooklyn, Museum
48 pages
Edward Hicks: Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom
1952
Ford, Alice
0 pages (color)
The Life and Works of Edward Hicks
1951
Bean, L. L.
32 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
Pictorial Folk Art New England to California
1949
Ford, Alice
172 pages (color)
It's Fun to Paint Painting for Enjoyment
1947
Lee, Doris/Arnold Blanch
127 pages
American Realists & Magic Realist (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Miller, Dorothy/Alfred H Barr
67 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Museum of Modern Art
320 pages
Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America (Museum of Modern Art, New York) (Exhibition catalog)
1938
Cahill, Holger et al
169 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
American Folk Art the Art of the Common Man in America, 1750-1900
1932
Cahill, Holger
200 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
Edward Hicks 1780-1849: A Special Exhibition Devoted to Life and Work (Exhibition catalog)