The World of Edward Hicks
Edward Hicks created some of the greatest icons of American folk art. Today his works sell in the millions of dollars. The Berlin Limner works to recreate Hicks’ work in exquisite detail and to your specifications. Hicks was more than the master of the“Peacable Kingdom” painting, consider some of his many other works as well!
“Peaceable Kingdom” Oil on canvas 24” x 30” Sold
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Details of Twining’s Farm
The Residence of David Twining
His father left Edward with the Twining family after the death of Edward’s mother. There are several extant images of Twining’s farm, most painted for members of Edward’s adoptive family. He did them from memory, and the boy in the foreground with Mrs. Twining is said to be the young Edward.
In 24” x 30”: $1375 (Other sizes available, please e-mail for a quote)
PENN’S TREATY with the INDIANS
The Penn’s Treaty image, copied from a print of the famous Benjamin West painting, fascinated Edward Hicks. It appears in most of the mid-period Kingdoms, and as a mature artist he painted several canvases featuring the event. As I worked on this version I couldn’t help but be struck by the painful irony of the ideas Hicks loved as compared to the reality of what actually happened to Native Americans.
24” x 30” oil on canvas $2200
Liberty, Meekness, Innocence
Hicks used this composition in a number of Kingdoms as a symbolic representation of the American spirit, or his ideal thereof. The cup held by the child is the font of knowledge, and the doves holding the banner represent peace.
11” x 14” oil on canvas $200
The Falls of Niagara
Hicks cribbed the images here from an early design in the corner of a map of North America and the verse adapted (and re-adapted by The Limner) from The Foresters, a long poem by Alexander Wilson.
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Peaceable Kingdom
This Kingdom represents one from Edward Hicks’ early period when the schism in the Quaker community weighed heavily on his mind. He said that the image of the community in the left of the scene came to him in a dream. The animals of the Peaceable Kingdom paintings represent the nature of humanity, each hearkening back to the medieval concept of the ‘humours.’ The child in this example is The Limner’s adaptation.
18” x 24” oil on canvas $950
Noah’s Ark
The Hicks original of this image is based on the popular Currier & Ives print. Stylistically it’s a great example of how he used original print sources for composition purposes but developed his own versions of the animals. With the number of Kingdoms and Penn’s Treaty images he painted it’s surprising that he didn’t paint more of the Noah’s Ark image; the only known example is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
24” x 30” oil on canvas $950
Available as a commission