Lot 105: Edward Hicks (1780-1849)

Edward Hicks (1780-1849)
Penn's Treaty
oil on canvas
17¾ x 23¾ in.

New York, United States Section of the International Commission on Folk Art, Exhibition of Folk Art, 1935.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Three Self-Taught Pennsylvania Artists: Hicks, Kane, Pippin, 1966.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, American Folk Art, 26 November -29 December 1977.

Paul A. W. Wallace, Seeds of a Nation, (New York, 1962) (illustrated on the cover)
Leon Anthony Arkus, "Edward Hicks 1780-1849", Three Self-Taught Pennsylvania Artists: Hicks, Kane, Pippin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1966), p. 16
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, American Folk Art, (New York, 1977), no. 31, p. 27
Eleanor Price Mather and Dorothy Canning Miller, Edward Hicks: His Peacable Kingdoms and Other Paintings, (New York, 1983), no. 86, p. 175
Alice Ford, Edward Hicks: His Life and Art, (New York, 1985), p. 118 (referenced)

By descent in the artist's family
Robert W. Carle, South Salem, Connecticut (Edward Hicks's great-grandson)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
A Private Collector
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York