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Historical Artist - Edward Hicks (1865 - 1929)
Edward Hicks was a primitive painter from Bucks County, Pennsylvania who began working as a
coach and sign painter. He was also a Quaker and devoted much of his life to preaching his
religion’s way of life. His joy of painting contrasted with the grave notions of Quaker
life and caused Hicks inner conflict over the morality of his hobby. He produced farm and
landscapes scenes but his remembered for his versions of the Peaceable Kingdom. Hicks' almost
always paints outdoor scenes, in which the light source is the sun or sky. Again, Hicks uses
small detail variations as a way to force a viewers to pay attention to content because they are
deliberate and purposeful. The color schemes of his work are not complicated. The color schemes
he choices to work with are very plane, and within a painting such "Peaceable
Kingdom", many of the colors have the same warmth or brown tone. This is another way that
Hicks' tries to convey "uniformity" or peace. Most of these paintings are
asymmetrically balanced. This is used as a way to activate the painting's space and proportion.
It is also being used as a way to reflect actions taking place between groups of people and
animals within the work.
Contemporary American Artists
Art Galleries in United States of America
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