Peaceable Kingdom, c. 1834

Provenance

Given by the artist in 1834 to Joseph Foulke [d. 1836], Three Tuns, Pennsylvania. Thomas Foulke, Ambler, Pennsylvania, his great-grandson. (Robert Carlen, Philadelphia); sold 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; bequest 1980 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1949

Hicks Centennial Exhibition, Robert Carlen Gallery, Philadelphia, 1949, no cat.

1951

American Primitive Painting, 1750-1950, Milwaukee Art Institute, 1951, no. 99.

1954

American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 76.

1957

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

1959

Early American Paintings, Sokoliki Park, Moscow, 1959, no cat. known.

1961

101 Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by the Amer. Federation of Arts, New York, 1961-1964, no. 53, color repro. First venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.

1965

Inaugural Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1965, no. 6.

1965

Three Centuries of American Painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1965, no cat.

1967

Fifty Masterpieces of American Painting from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, 1967, no cat.

1968

American Naive Painting 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. 49, repro. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.

1970

American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, organized by the Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., and Mainichi News., Nihobashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1970, no cat.

1971

What is American in American Art, M. Knoedler and Co. [benefit exhibition for the Museum of American Folk Art], New York, 1971, no. 28, repro.

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, Exh. cat. Traveling exh. by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, 1985-1987, no. 33, 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. 33, repro.

1999

The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg; Philadelphia Mus. of Art; Denver Art Museum; New York State Historical Assoc., Cooperstown; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1999-2001, no. 35, fig. 121.

2018

Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2018-2019, no. 35.

Bibliography

1934

Dresser, Louisa. "The Peaceable Kingdom." Bulletin of the Worcester Art Musuem 25 (Spring 1934): 25-30.

1950

Baker, Virgil. American Painting. New York, 1950: 286, 529-530.

1951

Bye, Arthur Edwin. "Edward Hicks." Art in America 39 (February 1951): 31-35.

1951

Held, Julius. "Edward Hicks and the Tradition." The Art Quarterly 14 (Summer 1951): 123-136.

1952

Ford, Alice. Edward Hicks, Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom. Philadelphia, 1952.

1960

Ford, Alice. Edward Hicks, 1780-1849: A Special Exhibition Devoted to His Life and Work. Exh. cat. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Va., 1960: 9-13, 15, 19.

1970

Dasnoy, Albert. Exegese de la peinture naive. Brussels, 1970: 212, 220, 221, 225.

1970

Mather, Eleanore Price. Edward Hicks, Primitive Quaker. Wallingford, Pennsylvania, 1970: 3, 16-20, 25-33.

1973

Mather, Eleanore Price. "A Quaker Icon: The Inner Kingdom of Edward Hicks." The Art Quarterly 36 (Spring/Summer 1973): 99.

1975

Derfner, Phyllis. "Edward Hicks: Practical Primitivism and the Inner Light." Art in America 63 (September/October): 76-79.

1975

Mather, Eleanore Price. "Introduction." In Edward Hicks, A Gentle Spirit. Exh. cat. Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, 1975: footnote 24.

1975

Parry, Ellwood. "Edward Hicks and a Quaker Iconography." Arts Magazine 49 (June 1975): 92-94.

1983

Journal of the American Medical Association 250, no. 23 (December 1983): color cover.

1983

Mather, Eleanore Price. Edward Hicks: His Peaceable Kingdoms and Other Paintings. Newark, Delaware, 1983: 127, no. 33.

1985

Ford, Alice. Edward HIcks, His Life and Art. New York, 1985: 25-30, 86-87, color repro.

1988

Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 88, no. 21, color repro.

1991

Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 291, color 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: 184-187, color repro. 185.

1997

Hughes, Robert. American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America. New York, 1997: 2, 3, 38 color fig. 1.

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