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Edward Hicks

Penn's Treaty with the Indians, c. 1840/1844

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 61.7 x 76.5 cm (24 5/16 x 30 1/8 in.)

framed: 67.6 x 82.9 x 5.1 cm (26 5/8 x 32 5/8 x 2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1980.62.11

Artists / Makers

Edward Hicks (artist) American, 1780 - 1849

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Overview

Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Naive Paintings, pages 189-191, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/public189-191, ations/pdfs/American%20Naive%20Painting.pdf

Inscription

across bottom: PENNS TREATY with the INDIANS, made 1681 with / out an Oath, and never broken. The foundation of / Religious and Civil LIBERTY, in the U.S. of AMERICA.; on treaty: PENNSYLV[ANIA]

Provenance

Recorded as from Pennsylvania. Elie Nadelman, until 1943;[1] (M. Knoedler and Co., New York); sold 1944 to Joseph Katz, New York; sold 1947 to (M. Knoedler and Co., New York); sold 1947 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Pokety Farms, Cambridge, Maryland; bequest 1980 to NGA.

[1] Sculptor Elie Nadelman began collecting art after his marriage in 1920 to the wealthy widow, Viola Flannery.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Katz, Joseph
Knoedler & Company, M.
Knoedler & Company, M.
Nadelman, Elie
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1954: American Primitive Paintings from the Colleciton of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 77.

1955: American Primitive Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

1957: American Primitive Paintings from the Colleciton of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957, not included in cat.

1968: American Naive Paintings of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of E. W. and B. C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., 1968-1970, no. 66, color repro. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.

1970: The New World: 1620-1970, Chrysler Museum of Art, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1970, no. 14.

1975: Edward Hicks, a Gentle Spirit, Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, 1975, no. 31.

1978: The American Folk Art Tradition: Paintings from the Garbisch Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978.

1985: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, traveling exh. by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, 1985-1987, no. 34, color repro. First venue: Museum of American Folk Art, New York.

1988: La Nascita di Una Nazione: Pittori americani dalla National Gallery of Art di Washington 1730-1880, Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Bologna; Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca'Pesaro, Venice, 1988-1989, no. 34, repro.

1993: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 1993-1994.

1993: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia, 1993.

1994: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, 1994.

1994: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Louisiana Arts and Science Center, Baton Rouge, 1994-1995.

1995: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Boise Art Museum, Idaho, 1995.

1995: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), McKissick Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, 1995.

1995: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida, 1995.

1995: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), St. John's Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1995-1996.

1996: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainseville, 1996-1997.

1996: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1996.

1996: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, 1996.

1996: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1996.

1997: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 1997.

1998: American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (NGA National Lending Service exhibition), Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1998.

2001: American Folk Art Masters, The Mennello Museum of American Folk Art, Orlando, 2001-2002, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1941: Brinton, Ellen Starr. "Benjamin West's Painting of Penn's Treaty with the Indians." Bulletin of the Friends' Historical Association 30 (Autumn 1941): 99-189.

1951: Held, Julius. "Edward Hicks and the Tradition." The Art Quarterly 14 (Summer 1951): 122, 125, 133.

1952: Ford, Alice. Edward Hicks, Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom. Philadelphia, 1952: xii, 41, 43, 66, 121, 141.

1975: Parry, Ellwood. "Edward Hicks and a Quaker Iconography." Arts Magazine 49 (June 1975): 93.

1976: Ayres, James. "Edward Hicks and His Sources." Antiques 109 (February 1976): 368.

1976: Sellers, Charles Coleman. Symbols of Peace: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. Philadelphia, 1976.

1983: Mather, Eleanore Price. Edward Hicks: His Peaceable Kingdoms and Other Paintings. Newark, Delaware, 181, no. 92.

1985: Ford, Alice. Edward Hicks, His Life and Art. New York, 1985: color repro. 199.

1988: Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 88, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 201, repro.

1992: Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 189-191, repro. 190.

1998: Ford, Alice. Edward Hicks, Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom. Philadelphia, 1998: 41-43, 66, repro. 141.