Talk:Edward Hicks

message: The article is generally well and clearly written, but the sentences are a bit on the choppy side of a child's primer. More importantly, the article fails to grapple with the enormity of the paradox posed by Hicks's career as a painter, since Friends had a clear, strict testimony against graven images. Not only does this pose a problem in understanding Edward Hicks, it also poses a problem in understanding his patrons, who were technically in violation of their own precepts each time they purchased a painting. And finally, there is the problem posed by the unthinkable implications of "Jonathan and David at the Stone Ezel," which breaks from the Peaceable Kingdom mold covered in this article, and which veers into the stuff of gay history. Because Jonathan and David knew the love that surpassed the love of women, gay historians have associated historical references to this trope as opportunities to do some gay history. Given the countless intersections between early gay history and Quaker history documented elsewhere, it's time to start thinking the unthinkable and ponder what kind of client might have wanted this picture.  24.22.86.206 (talk) 21:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paradox 

message: How can Peaceable Kingdom be at four different art museums?  Three of those attributions have to be incorrect.--Velvet elvis81 17:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hicks painted the Peaceable Kingdom something on the order of 100 times.  They come in many sizes, and the content of the paintings changed depending on what was going on around him.  My understanding is that he actually painted relatively few scenes given the total size of his body of work; he mostly repainted 3 or 4 scenes. --Ahc 15:04, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peaceable Kingdom 

message: This article was automatically  assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 11:24, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: The article calls Hicks "a strong supporter of the Republican Party," which seems disorienting.  Hicks died five years before the Republican Party was organized. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.106.239.217 (talk) 01:06, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The reference is probably to the Democratic-Republican Party, but absent a source it can be removed. Ewulp (talk) 02:57, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political Affiliation 

message: The present tense of this passage doesn't make sense, since Penn died 62 years before Hicks was born:
Hicks admired Penn as an opponent of British power in America, and he hoped that Penn could help ensure reform. Like Penn, Hicks opposed Britain's hierarchy.[12] Mdmcginn (talk) 11:00, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  William Penn 

message: I came here looking for his family & marital status...  Nothing...  And this is suspect as I've found mention of a daughter Elizabeth at the time of his death.  Given the push to find "gay history" in his life and work (see above) I suggest that this information is pertinent and should be added if it can be found.  Emyth (talk) 23:11, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family & Personal Life 

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