untitled (after Edward Hicks), Joan Nelson; Cirrus Editions Ltd.

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Joan Nelson; Cirrus Editions Ltd., untitled (after Edward Hicks)
Joan Nelson; Cirrus Editions Ltd., untitled (after Edward Hicks)
Joan Nelson; Cirrus Editions Ltd.
untitled (after Edward Hicks)
1993
untitled (after Edward Hicks), 1993
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: lithograph; wove paper; screen print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 506 x 506 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 19 15/16 x 19 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 24 x 32 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Lucy Shaw Schultz Fund
Accession number: 1997.0050
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture," Mar-2009, Steve Goddard Joan Nelson’s eerie landscape bears small resemblance to the idyllic Peaceable Kingdom paintings made by Edward Hicks in the early 1800s. Where Hicks crowded his scenes with humans and wild animals living together in perfect harmony, Nelson depicts a deserted coastline. Only a few half-bare trees remain, their hollow trunks and unnaturally amputated limbs becoming strangely animated in the absence of other life. Although there is something disquieting about Nelson’s image, we can see it as a continuation of Hicks’ Utopian dream- either fully realized, or completely abandoned.