Peaceable Kingdom Art Print - Edward Hick Size:18″×24″ including The Advance-Guard

including The Advance-Guard

Cypresses gained ground in Van Gogh’s work by late June 1889 when he resolved to devote one of his first series in Saint-Rémy to the towering trees

" The great Metropolitan Museum benefactor Catharine Lorillard Wolfe purchased this one at his Newport studio in 1877

as well as its chill nocturnal setting and subtle asymmetry of composition

About The Print:

Peaceable Kingdom Art Print - Edward Hick Size:18″×24″ including The Advance-GuardAbout the Art: The Quaker minister and painter Edward Hicks is best known for his Peaceable Kingdom pictures, of which sixty two exist. The paintings represent a messianic prophecy in the book of Isaiah (11: 6): The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. During the 1820s, a severe rift formed within the Society of