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Edward Hicks painted the same dream over and over. A lion lies down beside a lamb. A child rests a hand on a leopard. Behind them William Penn signs his treaty under an elm. Hicks was a Quaker minister in Pennsylvania who earned his living painting signs and coaches. The folk-art flatness is deliberate and plain. On a wall the pictures feel warm, patient and slightly strange.
Edward Hicks (1780-1849) was an American folk painter and a Quaker preacher in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He trained as a coach and sign painter, a trade that shows in the flat colour and clean outlines of everything he made. Hicks painted more than sixty versions of The Peaceable Kingdom, each one built on Isaiah's promise that the wolf would live with the lamb. His meeting disapproved of picture-making, and he argued with himself about it for most of his working life. He painted anyway.
The range covers the Kingdom pictures and the farm portraits together. A May Morning View of the Farm and Stock of David Leedom is here. It lays out cattle, orchard and fence line with the care of a land record. There is a version of Washington crossing the Delaware, and portrait work in the same plain hand. Expect earth browns, deep greens, and animals looking straight out at the viewer.
Folk art is forgiving. These prints sit happily in a child's room, a kitchen, a hallway with mismatched furniture, anywhere a formal picture would look stiff. Simple wooden frames are right for them. White or off-white walls let the browns and greens warm up. Hanging a pair of Kingdom scenes side by side shows how much Hicks changed between one telling of the story and the next.
Every artwork here is an archival print, hand-framed to order and delivered ready to hang — made in India.
Wall Art
by Edward Hicks
