Edward Hicks

(American, 1780–1849)

Room Paintings holds nine paintings by Edward Hicks, from the National Gallery of Art, The Met and the Cleveland Museum of Art. They date from 1816 to 1848. We file all of them under Folk & Naive. The most common subjects are animals, birds and children. Six of them suit a room in our lists, most often the kids' room and living room.

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The 9 paintings

This painting shows a pastoral setting with a large white-and-gray house on a hill to the left. Distant people stand in front of the house, along with a horse-drawn wagon.

Edward Hicks The Grave of William Penn, c. 1847/1848 National Gallery of Art

A pale-skinned child wearing a short-sleeved red dress and a white bonnet stands before a shadowy green forest under dark clouds in this vertical portrait painting. The child’s over-large head is out of scale with the rest of her body.

Edward Hicks Portrait of a Child, c. 1840 National Gallery of Art

Three small children with pale pink skin sit and stand among a group of animals to our right as a group of eight indigenous people with light brown skin gather with eight white-skinned men near a riverbank in the distance to our left in…

Edward Hicks Peaceable Kingdom, c. 1834 National Gallery of Art

The Falls of Niagara, Edward Hicks, ca. 1825, oil on canvas

Edward Hicks The Falls of Niagara, ca. 1825 The Met

Cows, horses, sheep, and pigs stand closely together in a band across the bottom edge of this horizontal painting. Rolling hills open onto grassy lawns, farms, and fields beyond.

Edward Hicks The Cornell Farm, 1848 National Gallery of Art

Eight pale-skinned men and thirteen brown-skinned, indigenous Lenape men, women, and a baby gather on a grassy field close to us in this horizontal painting. The white men are cleanshaven and have puffy gray, shoulder-length hair.

Edward Hicks Penn's Treaty with the Indians, c. 1840/1844 National Gallery of Art

The Peaceable Kingdom, Edward Hicks, c. 1816–18, oil on canvas

Edward Hicks The Peaceable Kingdom, c. 1816–18 Cleveland Museum of Art

Peaceable Kingdom, Edward Hicks, ca. 1830–32, oil on canvas

Edward Hicks Peaceable Kingdom, ca. 1830–32 The Met

The painting features a scene showing men in a boat landing on a shore. The horizon is low, with larger sailing ships seen in the distance on the right, floating on the dark green water.

Edward Hicks The Landing of Columbus, c. 1837 National Gallery of Art