Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849
Painter
Size: 55 items (on partial microfilm reel)
Summary: 37 letters, including 14 from Edward Hicks, and 18 letters between Isaac Hicks and John Comley, mainly regarding religious matters; a 285 pp. autobiography covering Hick's early life and apprenticeships, and 3 pages of an undated memoir and miscellaneous biographical material.
Primitive artist Edward Hicks was deeply religious, he later became an active Quaker preacher.
The papers have been assembled from several collections at Swarthmore. Call numbers are listed on the microfilm. Microfilmed as part of the Archives of American Art's Philadelphia project.
Microfilm reel 4151 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan, at Swarthmore College, and the Free Library of Philadelphia.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Edward Hicks selected papers in the Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, 1818-1851. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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