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Thomas Hicks

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Thomas Hicks (1823 - 1890) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, New York / France, Italy.  Thomas Hicks is known for Portrait, landscape, history, genre and figure painting.

A native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (b.1823), Thomas Hicks began as a carriage painter, apprenticed to his cousin and primitive style artist, Edward Hicks.  As early as 1836 Thomas received his first instruction in portrait painting from his cousin, Edward, whose portrait Thomas painted the following year.  He received much acclaim, and with his talents evident seemed destined to be a professional artist.

With his father's encouragement, Hicks attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts*, but stayed only several months and then moved to New York City where in 1838, he entered the Antique Class of the National Academy of Design*. Within the year, he was exhibiting portraits, history and religious paintings at the Academy, and at age 18 was elected an Associate for his painting, Death of Abel.  Enrolled from 1840 to 1842 and 1844 to 1845, he continued Academy classes.

In 1845, Hicks began a several-year period of living abroad.  He spent ti   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2846 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  69
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Thomas Hicks
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review The Visual Heritage of Bucks County December 1998 Smith, Erika Jaeger Yes
69 Book References for Thomas Hicks
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2000 Cuthbert, John A. Early Art and Artists in West Virginia 301 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Davis, John The Landscape of Belief Encountering the Holy Land in 19th Cent American Art 264 Yes
1995 Schwarz-Philadelphia One Hundred Paintings by American & European Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1993 Schwarz-Philadelphia European & American Painting Philadelphia Collection LIII
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1993 Weber, Bruce The Apple of America The Apple in 19th Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1992 Stebbins, Theodore E The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience
(Exhibition catalog)		 470 Yes
1991 Boime, Albert The Magisterial Gaze Manifest Destiny & Landscape Painting 1830-1865 188 Yes
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1988 Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor) Bilder aus der Neuen Welt Amerikanische Malerei des 18 und 19 Jahrhunderts 328 Yes
1987 Schwarz-Philadelphia Winter Exhibition American 19th & 20th Century Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 30 No
1987 Simon, Robin The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914 255 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Pisano, Ronald G Long Island Landscape Painting 1820-1920 (Volume 1) 167 Yes
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1984 Anderson, Patricia The Course of Empire: The Erie Canal and the New York Landscape, 1825-1875
(Exhibition catalog)		 90 Yes
1984 Harding, Jonathan P Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure 185 No
1984 Norton, Thomas E 100 Years of Collecting in America The Story of Sotheby Park Bernet 240 Yes
1984 Troyen, Carol/Pamela Tabbaa The Great Boston Collectors Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts 151 Yes
1983 Johnston, Sona K American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art 187 Yes
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 228 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Novak, Barbara and Annette Blaugrund Next to Nature: Landscape Paintings from the National Academy of Design 213 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Fink, Lois Marie Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art 62 Yes
1978 Williams, Herman Warner Jr Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900 248 Yes
1977 Mayor, A. Hyatt; Mark Davis American Art at the Century 0 No
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1975 Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 No
1975 National Academy of Design A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975
(Exhibition catalog)		 262 No
1974 Hills, Patricia The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1973 Hennessey, William J The American Portrait: From the Death of Stuart to Sargent 63 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1970 Flexner, James Thomas Nineteenth Century American Painting 256 No
1970 Howat, John K (others) 19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 Yes
1970 Landgren, Marchal E American Pupils of Thomas Couture
(Exhibition catalog)		 65 No
1969 Curator American Art from the Denver Art Museum Collection 127 No
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Public Education Association The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1968 Townsend, Benjamin (others) This New Man A Discourse in Portraits
(Exhibition catalog)		 217 Yes
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1966 North Carolina Museum of Art American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1 118 Yes
1962 Flexner, James Thomas History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111) 407 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1944 Richardson, Edgar P American Romantic Painting 286 No
1941 New York Historical Society American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures 367 No
1939 Metropolitan Museum of Art Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1922 Kelby, William Notes on American Artists 1754-1820 Portraits & Sculpture in New York Hist Society 80 Yes
1879 Sheldon, G W American Painters With Eighty-three Engraved Examples of Their Work 184 No
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