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Edward Hicks
1780-1849
Pennsylvania-born Quaker Painter
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Edward Hicks is one of the most exceptional painters of all time. His talent for portraying animals is unequalled in all of art history. Although he was self-taught, over the years he acquired advanced technical ability and developed a sophisticated and sensitive understanding of art. As a creative painter he was driven obsessively to create spiritually significant imagery with which nourished the human spirit, celebrate the word of God and help conquer his inner demons. Hicks painted at the time when both the United States and modern American Quakerism were young. He was an evocative Primitivist and a spiritual man, who believed in honesty, restraint, and contact with his Inner Light. He had a genuine spiritual connection with God and a true understanding of the Scriptures. His paintings overflow with symbols and contain elements of wrath, egoism, self-indulgence, worship and Christ's true meaning.
He is best know for the
Peaceable Kingdoms he
obsessively painted . The
animals represent Isaiah's
prophecy in the Bible (Isa.
11:6) "The wolf shall also
dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard shall lie down with
the kid; and the calf and
the young lion and the
fatling together; and a
little child shall lead
them."
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