Edward Hicks research collection, 1920-1961.

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Edward Hicks research collection, 1920-1961.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70965479

Correspondence to Sarah Hicks and others (1920-1947); an address by H.D. Paxson (1922); articles; gallery catalog; news clippings; notes by Henry Mercer and others; and monochrome photographs of Hicks's painting and signs.

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Bucks County Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8056677

Bucks County Historical Society

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Paxson, Henry D.

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Hicks, Sarah (Conductor)

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Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849

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Edward Hicks (April 4, 1780 – August 23, 1849) was an American folk painter and distinguished religious minister of the Society of Friends (aka "Quakers"). He became a Quaker icon because of his paintings. Edward Hicks was born in his grandfather's mansion at Attleboro (now Langhorne), in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His parents were Anglican. Isaac Hicks, his father, was a Loyalist who was left without any money after the British defeat in the Revolutionary War. After young Edward's mothe...